Anyone seen anything like this in the ports tree?
Bob Johnson
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Mon Aug 15 14:22:34 GMT 2005
On 8/12/05, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff at gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/080805-wafs.html
>
> It's software-in-a-box to tone down the chattiness of CIFS/SMB and NFS,
> so that WAN links aren't so slow.
>
> I'm working with offices in the US, UK and AU, and file sharing between
> them is horrendous, mostly because of how many hops between them.
I don't know enough about its internal workings to really say, but it
seems likely that setting up a Coda server at each office and using
NFS or SMB for local access to those servers might do what you want.
I've seen Coda in ports somewhere, and the main website is
http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/
- Bob
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