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diff --git a/sys/coda/README b/sys/coda/README index f9bf3c35cdc6..19de799c0eac 100644 --- a/sys/coda/README +++ b/sys/coda/README @@ -1,12 +1,14 @@ +$FreeBSD$ + Announcing the Availability of the Coda Distributed Filesystem for BSD Unix Systems - Coda is a distributed file system like NFS and AFS. It is + Coda is a distributed filesystem like NFS and AFS. It is freely available, like NFS. But it functions much like AFS in being a -"stateful" file system. Coda and AFS cache files on your local +"stateful" filesystem. Coda and AFS cache files on your local machine to improve performance. But Coda goes a step further than AFS by letting you access the cached files when there is no available network, viz. disconnected laptops and network outages. In Coda, both @@ -25,12 +27,12 @@ progress and does have bugs. It is, though, very usable. Our interest is in making Coda available to as many people as possible and to have Coda evolve and flourish. -The bulk of the Coda file system code supports the Coda client +The bulk of the Coda filesystem code supports the Coda client program, the Coda server program and the utilities needed by both. All these programs are unix programs and can run equally well on any Unix platform. Our main development thrust is improving these programs. There is a small part of Coda that deals with the kernel to -file system interface. This code is OS specific (but should not be +filesystem interface. This code is OS specific (but should not be platform specific). Coda is currently available for several OS's and platforms: |