[Infrastructures] Coda, to do or not to do?

[Steve Wray]

Ivan Popov wrote:
> Hello Rudy and all,
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> On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:56:36PM +0100, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
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>>I've read several things about Coda on this last the last month.  The
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> I am on this list since today and thus have not seen those letters.
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>>general opinion (I think) is that Coda is dead.  
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> That hardly resembles the truth.
> Coda still has a lot to improve, but it is a real filesystem.

The last time I used coda it was an unmitigated disaster.

It turned out that if the client tries to access a file which is larger 
than the client side cache, the server would crash. Badly.

When I raised this on the coda mailing list (its probably in the 
archives...) it appeared that this was a design 'feature' and the 
comments I recieved from the coda development team was that it would be 
almost impossible to fix this behavior.

Coda is also (still) *full* of performance-draining debugging code 
which, again from comments made by people on the coda development team, 
would be *exremely* hard to remove from the code base. The whole thing 
would need refactoring.

This was a few years ago. Perhaps its improved? But I certainly wouldn't 
trust data to it.