Anyone seen anything like this in the ports tree?

Kurt Buff kurt.buff at gmail.com
Tue Aug 16 01:08:02 GMT 2005


Eric Schuele wrote:
> 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.
> 

Oh, yes indeedy, this looks quite interesting.

Thanks!


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