Anyone seen anything like this in the ports tree?
Eric Schuele
e.schuele at computer.org
Tue Aug 16 00:43:47 GMT 2005
Bob Johnson wrote:
> On 8/12/05, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>All,
>>
>>http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/080805-wafs.html
>>
>>It's software-in-a-box to tone down the chattiness of CIFS/SMB and NFS,
>>so that WAN links aren't so slow.
>>
>>I'm working with offices in the US, UK and AU, and file sharing between
>>them is horrendous, mostly because of how many hops between them.
>
>
> I don't know enough about its internal workings to really say, but it
> seems likely that setting up a Coda server at each office and using
> NFS or SMB for local access to those servers might do what you want.
>
> I've seen Coda in ports somewhere, and the main website is
> http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/
>
> - Bob
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Looks very promising. Thanks.
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Regards,
Eric
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