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Re: fixing coda in -current



In article <ab8d9957-74a5-e162-3637-6dc788eb8c2b%m00nbsd.net@localhost>,
Maxime Villard  <max%m00nbsd.net@localhost> wrote:
>Le 20/11/2018 à 16:18, Greg Troxel a écrit :
>> I used to use it, and may again.  So I'd like to see it stay, partly
>> because I think it's good to keep NetBS relevant in the fileystem
>> research world.  I am expecting to see new upstream activity.
>
>The problem is that CODA is not relevant in this world either... Developed
>since 1987, hasn't gone very far, seems to have been dropped by everybody
>except us and Linux. There appears to be some activity in the Linux source
>from time to time, but nothing really significant at a first glance. Our
>code, on the other side, hasn't moved at all.
>
>The research world of today is much more around ZFS and HammerFS, neither
>of which we support correctly. Keeping dead wood of the previous century for
>the sake of "research" is really bad IMHO.

But CODA is a remote filesystem, not a local filesystem.

christos



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