Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Networkhood file system | Date | 31 Aug 1998 01:43:09 GMT |
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Followup to: <199808292353.TAA26841@hilfy.ece.cmu.edu> By author: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@kf8nh.apk.net> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > *blink* > > Dumb thought time: has anyone contemplated a layer on top of Coda? Given > its origins, I would guess it has most of this problem solved already and > adding views would be a relatively simple change. >
Actually, something I'd like to see is a more general way to report the availability of services. Coda is much less of an issue (it manages its own namespace), but there are all kinds of other server reporting that would be good.
Perhaps this could be built on top of DNS or LDAP.
It's probably worth pointing out that needing to know which server a service resides on is a Bad Thing[TM]; it is vital that this system allows for the network manager to abstract this out (announce the print services on "printserver.domain.com" rather that "honda.domain.com", because next week the print server might be running on "volvo.domain.com" instead.)
-hpa
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