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Johannes Martin wrote: >Hi everybody, > >I've been using Coda over the last six month and would like to report on >some of my experiences. I've been using Coda in quite a tiny setup to >mirror my home directory. My server is a rather old machine, a pentium 133 >with 64 MB RAM, later upgraded to 96 MB RAM and 1.6 GB swap (of which 1GB >is used for Coda RVM). The server is also serving as a router with a squid >cache/proxy. > >I have two clients connecting to the server, one of them is a laptop that >is usually only suspended, the other one a plain computer running only >occasionally. All systems are running Debian GNU/Linux. > >To start with the good things about Coda: when it works, it's really neat >to have my files available on both clients without me having to worry >about copying them over all the time and keeping track of versions. > If you don't use CODA, please give OpenAFS a shot, it looks very promising. In my case, ever since I found out the entire file has to complete transferring before one byte is accessable pretty much ruled it out for my uses.Received on 2004-09-05 23:03:06