About Coda

Coda is an advanced networked filesystem. It has been developed at CMU since 1987 by the systems group of M. Satyanarayanan. in the SCS department.

Coda is a distributed filesystem with its origin in AFS2. It has many features that are very desirable for network filesystems. Currently, Coda has several features not found elsewhere.
- Disconnected operation for mobile computing
- Is freely available under a liberal license
- High performance through client side persistent caching
- Server replication
- Security model for authentication, encryption and access control
- Continued operation during partial network failures in server network
- Network bandwith adaptation
- Good scalability
- Well defined semantics of sharing, even in the presence of network failures

Coda main homepage: http://coda.cs.cmu.edu/

Useful Documents

Introcution
Coda File system user and system Manual
Coda howto
Coda Wiki