Re: nfs is stupid ("getfh failed")

Henning P. Schmiedehausen (mailgate@hometree.net)
Sun, 9 Sep 2001 10:05:00 +0000 (UTC)

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

>> "Michael Rothwell" <rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us> 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 <name
of the day>, of course. The horrors! The horrors! :-) ) and nothing
much else.

Regards
Henning

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