[This may be old news (I haven't been following the list lately).  If so,
please ignore this message.]

A few days ago Slashdot ran a very informative discussion on distributed
network filesystems.  CODA was one of the many projects discussed,
compared, and criticized.  Here's the link:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/09/18/2237232&mode=thread

-Pete