Coda File System

Re: Coda servers and WAN links?

From: Peter J. Braam <braam_at_cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 09:13:11 -0400 (EDT)
Troy,

We have all been wondering about this, and we just don't know.

- Peter -

On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:

> Hrrmmm... I was wondering about this: Would it be possible to have two
> coda servers on opposite ends of a WAN link with r/w replicated volumes on
> both servers?
> 
> I have an adsl line, and was wondering if it is technically feasable to
> have one coda server at my home, and one somewhere else. I've got >
> 256Kb/sec bandwidth, but the latency (ping times) are around 30
> milliseconds to router on the other side of the ADSL and around ~100-200 
> ms to my college campus network, depending on the time of day, phase of
> the moon, etc.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea how coda would handle this? My impression is
> that it the architecture is such that it can deal with it, but might need
> some tuning.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
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Received on 1998-08-07 09:18:55