Coda File System

Re: big files

From: Florian Schaefer <listbox_at_netego.de>
Date: Sat Sep 08 03:56:56 2001
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 11:35:34 -0400 (EDT), Shafeeq Sinnamohideen said:

> > is it possible to use files with coda that are bigger than my local
> > cache? What would coda do with such a file?
> 
> Not really. If you expanded a file past the size of your cache, but didn't
> run out of space on the cache partition, the file would get saved to the
> server. The client will refuse to fetch a file bigger than the cache, so
> you will never be able to get at it again unless you increase your cache
> size.

Which means that I will have to install something like NFS, too, for big
files (like ISO-images). Are there any known problems with running NFS
and coda on the same client or server?

Ciao
Florian
Received on 2001-09-08 03:56:56