From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 16 00:43:47 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42FAC16A41F for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 00:43:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [216.148.227.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F90A43D46 for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 00:43:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from [192.168.214.218] (c-24-1-232-64.hsd1.tx.comcast.net[24.1.232.64]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2005081600431701300ols17e>; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 00:43:18 +0000 Message-ID: <430136A4.1050405@computer.org> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:43:16 -0500 From: Eric Schuele User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050721) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bob Johnson References: <42FD0180.9060405@gmail.com> <54db4399050815072267f59191@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <54db4399050815072267f59191@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone seen anything like this in the ports tree? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 00:43:47 -0000 Bob Johnson wrote: > On 8/12/05, Kurt Buff 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Looks very promising. Thanks. -- Regards, Eric