Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Coda is an experimental distributed file system, developed at Carnegie Mellon University since 1987, under the direction of M. Satyanarayanan. It is based on the older AFS, a similar but less advanced distributed file system. Major features include: Disconnected operation - Disconnect from the file server and carry on working Client-side caching - Improves performance by reducing the need to fetch data from the server Replication - Store and manipulate the same data on multiple servers, to improve reliability and scalability Security - Uses a security system derived from Kerberos Well-defined semantics of sharing, even with network failures Coda is still under development, and the emphasis appears to be on moving from a very good research project to a useful filesystem ready for large-scale production use. External Links http://coda.cs.cmu.edu/ This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.