Re: Networkhood file system
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sat, 29 Aug 1998 19:53:05 -0300
In message <Pine.LNX.4.02.9808291026300.1272-100000@tahallah.demon.co.uk>,
Alex
Buell writes:
+-----
| On Sat, 29 Aug 1998 doctor@fruitbat.org wrote:
| > ability. Atria implemented their own filesystem (called Multiple
| > Versioned File System (MVFS)) which hooks into the kernel as a kernel
| > extension (under Unix implementations). The implementation is such
| > that each user has a "view" of the filesystems being accessed. These
| > views are maintained using a combination of local disk and remote
| > lookup for all filesystem accesses. Even on high end machines the
|
| It's horrible. I have to suffer by using ClearCase at Raytheon, and there
| are a *lot* of complaints that the intranet is completely saturated by
| about 200-300 of us using ClearCase.
+--->8
*blink*
Dumb thought time: has anyone contemplated a layer on top of Coda? Given
its origins, I would guess it has most of this problem solved already and
adding views would be a relatively simple change.
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brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
carnegie mellon university
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