Re: tlug: CODA distributed filesystem

[Frank Bennett <bennett@example.com>]

Darren Cook <darren@example.com> writes:

> I read the overview (nice pictures) in the site whose URL you gave a couple
> a couple of days ago. The thing I wasn't clear on was what happens when two
> people are using the same file. My understanding was that this was allowed,
> and when they both save their changes back it will intelligently combine
> them if it can, otherwise human interaction is required.
> 
> That sounds a bit dangerous. ...

To me too.  Then again, it would be dangerous in a live shared
filesystem on one machine, too.  Be that as it may, I read some
of the docs about conflict resolution, and it sounded like an
administrative headache.  If this stuff looks to be reasonably
reliable, I may use it for our student terminals here, but we'll
not be allowing shared write access to anything.

Cheers,
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