From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 06:05:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 06:04:50 -0400 Received: from tangens.hometree.net ([212.34.181.34]:5582 "EHLO mail.hometree.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 06:04:39 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: forge.intermeta.de!not-for-mail From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" Newsgroups: hometree.linux.kernel Subject: Re: nfs is stupid ("getfh failed") Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 10:05:00 +0000 (UTC) Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH Message-ID: <9nfesc$ctr$1@forge.intermeta.de> In-Reply-To: Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: forge.intermeta.de X-Trace: tangens.hometree.net 1000029900 10155 212.34.181.4 (9 Sep 2001 10:05:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 10:05:00 +0000 (UTC) X-Copyright: (C) 1996-2001 Henning Schmiedehausen X-No-Archive: yes X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.1 (NOV) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox writes: >> "Michael Rothwell" writes: >> >> > Just wondering if there's been any talk, plans, etc. of an alternative for >> > NFS. >> >> there's coda. >You probably want inter-mezzo rather than coda for that kind of file >service. Coda is a research project, inter-mezzo is kind of "distilled coda >and afs", making it a real fs. http://www.inter-mezzo.org And it currently looks "Linux only", which kind of defeats IMHO the purpose. In a heterogenous environment there is NFS (and SMB aka CIFS aka , of course. The horrors! The horrors! :-) ) and nothing much else. Regards Henning -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen -- Geschaeftsfuehrer INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH hps@intermeta.de Am Schwabachgrund 22 Fon.: 09131 / 50654-0 info@intermeta.de D-91054 Buckenhof Fax.: 09131 / 50654-20