thoughts?

[Michele A. Trovero]

It seems to me that coda (http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/) would more
appropriate for your needs: it is an evolution of AFS designed to support
disconnected operation for mobile computing. I know it runs on Linux, I
guess it will run on BSD as well, although I never used it, so I don't know
how well it works.

Michele


--On Tuesday, August 17, 1999, 6:33 AM -0500 "Todd T. Fries"
<toddf at acm.org> wrote:

> I have a couple of machine that almost could use arla but not quite.  I
> have been told this is a place to seek brainstorm activity, to boldly
> create new ideas never thought of before, or seek out ones I have not
> known, etc...
> 
> So.. the situation as best I can describe it...
> 
> I have a network of machines at my apartment, different archs, a few large
> disks.  I have OpenBSD on all machines (but two hppa machines, nfsroot
> works, so soon they will be OpenBSD as well) .. I mention the os because
> it has arla integrated and thus is available as a client .. several nfs
> fileservers,  two machines 'borg' and 'wearable'.  'Borg' is a black
> thinkpad, and wearable explains itself.  Although the wearable needs some
> more hardware before it is truly portable, it will be soon enough.
> 
> I have lots of data I find myself manually duplicating across borg,
> wearable, and 'the rest of the net'.  As logistics would have it, borg
> and wearable will naturally be separated from the home net and each other
> for periods of time.
> 
> What I think I need is a cachefs of sorts, one that allows me to place in
> some sort of persistent writable cache in disconnect mode any files I will
> be dealing with while away (for borg, mp3's and src, car casette adaptors
> and laptops with audio work nicely!) .. 
> 
> My thoughts on an appropriate solution:
> 
> - arla server. 
>   a) I hear this is in the pipeline, but I would not yet want
>      to plan on converting my nfs servers to arla servers.
>   b) I hear there exists a 'server' that serves local filesystems instead
>   of arla volumes.  Seems perfect for a temporary solution.
> - cachefs like filesystem that adds the behaviors:
>   - persistent cache across disconnection 
>   - persistent cache across reboot
>   - disconnected writing to the cache
> - arla-drinkers@ original/already thought of idea??
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> I'm not on this mailing list, please cc: appropriately.
> -- 
> Todd Fries .. toddf at acm.org
>