what is coda?
what does it do for freebsd?



On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Andrea Cerrito wrote:

> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 22:09:13 +0100
> From: Andrea Cerrito <ml_at_centromultimediale.it>
> To: codalist_at_coda.cs.cmu.edu, vchkpw_at_inter7.com
> Subject: Trying to use "qmail" on CODA? Read this
> 
> Hi to all
> 
> I'm sending this mail to prevent nightmares to all users trying to use CODA
> and qmail together.
> 
> qmail use a cool way to copy files between dirs (link() function) unallowed
> on CodaFS. So, the first thing is to modify qmail, with qmail-coda.patch.
> 
> But if you are using Vpopmail too (http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/), well
> your nightmares aren't gone away: vpopmail (before 4.9.9, develop as the
> time of this mail) uses the same function as qmail, so the problem will
> persist.
> 
> You have two choices: (preferred) use the new version of vpopmail,
> (deferred) use vpopmail-coda.patch
> (note: the patch remove link() function and new vpopmail integrate a check
> to see if hardlinks are allowed - if not, rename will be used: of course,
> last choice is to be preferred).
> 
> I hope it helps and thanks to all people around making these great
> softwares.
> 
> References:
> 1) Jan Harkes speaks about link() and coda =
> http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/maillists/codalist-2000/0719.html
> 2) Me and Ken Jones speaking about vdelivermail.c =
> http://www.mail-archive.com/vchkpw%40inter7.com/msg03255.html
> ---
> Cordiali saluti / Best regards
> Andrea Cerrito
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