[itp] Coda filesystem

[Phil Nelson]

On Tuesday 04 September 2007 3:53:17 pm d.henman wrote:
> I am not an expert of current distributed files systems, but for cygwin wouldn't 
> MogileFS be easier to implement (even though its not a fs in and of itslef). From
> my understanding it only requires perl and mysql I believe. 
> 
> Ref:  http://www.danga.com/mogilefs/

The real intent of my questions was more like:

   We are already managing cygwin packages in a private
cygwin mirror for Coda.   We would like to make the packages
be on all cygwin mirrors.

I wasn't asking just to bring in a distributed file system.   And
Coda and MogileFS are not really similar file systems.

From the web site:

 " you don't run regular Unix applications or databases against MogileFS.
 It's meant for archiving write-once files and doing only sequential reads."

While you can't have a database file in Coda either,  Coda is a full R/W
distributed file system with "disconnected operation".   But I don't want
to end up in a discussion of Coda vs any other FS, I just wanted a 
discussion of inclusion of Coda or not.

--Phil

-- 
Phil Nelson (phil@cs.wwu.edu) http://www.cs.wwu.edu/nelson
NetBSD: http://www.NetBSD.org  Coda: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu

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