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Ivan Popov wrote: >On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 12:01:37AM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > >>>Certainly Coda is the best fs in that aspect. The question is what you >>>mean by "globalness". Some approximation like AFS does it can be ok. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>How are the name spaces of Coda and AFS different? Up until now I >>thought they are pretty similar in that respect... >> >> > >Hi Mike, > >in AFS the contents of /afs is defined by a file to be present on each client. >I.e. the file name space is defined by the client, not really global. >That's why you can see "shortcuts" there which would not work on another client. >So clients from different administration domains often can not access the >same files via same names. > >Coda uses DNS which is global by design. You can always reach any realm, >without any intervention of the client administrator. > I seem to recall something about this. But wasn't that overcome with the "root" afs volume? Thanks Ivan, this is something I'll need to look into once I start my testing. MikeReceived on 2004-09-20 13:35:07