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Ivan Popov wrote: >Hi Scott, > >On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 04:12:32PM -0600, Scott Serr wrote: > > >>Currently we have offices in several countries that have large NFS >>servers - I think most are NetApps (Network Appliance) NAS. These are >> >> > > > >>Is there a slick way a Coda client could "re-export" by being an NFS >>server for the local computers too? >> >> > >Coda in theory can be reexported via NFS, by a user space nfs server. > >That does not work well, though, even for readonly access - and definitely >is going to break for readwrite, for many reasons, the most obvious >being incompatible access rights semantics of NFS and Coda. >In old days there have been products like AFS-NFS and DFS-NFS gateways >which tried to adress that incompatibility, but there is no lookalike >for Coda and most probably never will be, for other good reasons. > >With other words, I guess, you would have to convert all of your clients >to Coda, with all consequences. >Coda does not do well with slow connection between _servers_, >so you'd have all of the servers at one site and clients all over the world. >It may work, but that depends a lot on what the clients do with the data. > >I would not encourage such move without a lot of careful evaluation. > >Regards, >-- >Ivan > > Thank you for this information -- it is very helpful. Looks like Coda will not solve our problems. In response to our problem... We are looking at doing our rsync transfers smarter: doing some "daisy-chaining" instead of all rsyncs coming from one server. So the duplicate sync data won't go over the same WAN connection too many (12) times. Thanks, ScottReceived on 2005-09-13 02:37:42