Coda File System

Re: CODA on Fedora Core 1

From: Ivan Popov <pin_at_medic.chalmers.se>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 11:19:05 +0200
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 01:32:00AM +0100, Nuno Tavares wrote:
> Em Wed, 26 May 2004 10:21:07 -0400, Jan Harkes escreveu:
> 
> > Why did you build 6.0.5 when 6.0.6 that has this fixed was released a
> > couple of weeks ago?
> 
> Well, I found pretty hard to choose which one to install. There is no
> information about wether which ones are stable/unstable versions, nor
> 2.4/2.6-ready, just a plain directory index.
> 
> So, lets define it clearly here:
> coda*5.x is for kernel 2.4,
> coda*6.x is for kernel 2.6, right?

Well, not exactly :)

2.6 can do either Coda 6 or 5 kernel interfaces without any add-ons.
The corresponding interface versions are 3 and 2.
(For you there is no reason to use the old interface, which otherwise can be
chosen by a kernel config option.)

2.4 has Coda 5 kernel interface ("version 2") out of the box but
that is too old for current user space tools.

If you apply http://coda.cs.cmu.edu/pub/coda/linux/kernel/linux-2.4-coda.patch
say to 2.4.26, that provides Coda 6 kernel interface ("version 3").

Regards,
--
Ivan
Received on 2004-05-27 05:21:50