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Ivan Popov wrote: > > It would be very interesting to get an estimation of the resources > (person*month) needed for making Coda usable "in the wild": > > 1. Make it robust (may be we are already there? :) > 2. Relax server file number limitation to say 500Gb of 10k-files > (even if by a cute configuration utility creating 10 servers at once?) > 3. Create a working client solution (client, gateway, samba setup, > anything) for Win2k & similar > 4. Introduce real encryption and make both the server and clients > basically resistant against spoofing, buffer overflows and other > evident types of attack > 5. Support (and may be -hint-hint- standardize) multiple mount points > like afs and dfs do, even if it would rely on dns-names only 6. Easier, one-step setup. Most of the mistakes that people seem to make and most of the problems they encounter seem to be because they made a mistake (some mistakes quite reasonable) in setting it up. 7. GUI (eg. GTK) interface to resolve reintegration conflicts, a la Win2K. "The file X was changed on your computer (date Y, size Z) and on the server (date A, size B) while you were offline. Choose an option: [ ] overwrite server [ ] overwrite client [ ] keep both". 8. Fix the problem with two replicated servers that I and at least a couple of other people are having (gory details in the archives). -- JEREMY MALCOLM <Jeremy@Malcolm.wattle.id.au> http://malcolm.wattle.id.au Providing online networks of Australian lawyers (http://www.ilaw.com.au) and Linux experts (http://www.linuxconsultants.com.au) for instant help! Disclaimer: http://www.terminus.net.au/disclaimer.html. GPG key: finger.Received on 2001-11-09 20:17:26