Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 17:59:42 -0700 From: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> To: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> Cc: Bob Johnson <fbsdlists@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone seen anything like this in the ports tree? Message-ID: <43013A7E.4090509@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <430136A4.1050405@computer.org> References: <42FD0180.9060405@gmail.com> <54db4399050815072267f59191@mail.gmail.com> <430136A4.1050405@computer.org>
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Eric Schuele wrote: > Bob Johnson wrote: > >> On 8/12/05, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> 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. > Oh, yes indeedy, this looks quite interesting. Thanks!
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