Re: [9fans] Acme mailreader - now: User mode filesystems in linux

["Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Martin C.Atkins wrote:

> 
> For those that don't already know: Coda is a remote filesystem that
> copes (more or less well) with disconnection from, and reconnection
> to the fileserver. Thus allowing clients to continue work in the
> disconnected state. I'm not sure how successful it was at this - I've
> never tried it - but it sounds like an interesting goal. This goal is
> also shared by Intermezzo, which was (also) started by Peter Braam -
> so presumably he felt Coda could be improved upon.

As peter used to put it, 5KLOC (intermezzo) was in his mind better than 
500KLOC (coda). He brought both file systems to fruition. 

> However, judging by the News pages on their web sites, more seems to
> be happening with Coda, than with Intermezzo, recently.

yeah, intermezzo limped along for 5 years, never quite worked, then died. 
But the kernel->user interface of intermezzo is perfectly usable. Sounds 
like you've gotten far with coda, so this is just an FYI.

I only know a bit about this because I did a lot of work with imezzo early 
in the game, and got to the point where I could boot a linux node with 
imezzo as the root file system. That was interesting.

ron