Apparently, though unproven, at 23:11 on Saturday 04 June 2011, Stroller did opine thusly:
> On 4 June 2011, at 16:10, Stéphane Guedon wrote: > > ... > > In home network, you share many types of files ! The first I think is DVD > > iso, which is huge (too large to go through coda) and not streamable... > > (but I admit it's not the best exemple !) > > I'm not sure what coda is, but I "stream" DVD .iso files over Samba to my > set-top-box. [1] [2] coda and andrewfs are the same class of thing - a network connected file system. Both claim to deal nicely with becoming disconnected, then will just wait for the other end to come back online. But without the large exposure that NFS and samba already have, support is somewhat spotty still. > DVD .iso files are no longer considered "huge". There are now people who > rip blu-rays to store them on the NAS - those are each c 50gb. I have visions of Aunt Tillie trying to do that off a VFAT usb disk using Windows..... :-0 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
