I am a newbie to Symbian OS, and am interested to know about the Distributed File system support on Symbian OS.
Please let me know any pointers in this direction,
I don't think there is, because in general there is little to no support available for file systems in Symbian except the built-in file system driving internal and external flash memory. There seems to be a mechanism to implement new file system drivers, but I don't know of anybody doing it and making the result available in public.
But could you tell an example for such a "distributed file system" on another OS, and explain what you would like to do with it on a Symbian phone? Maybe there are other ways to achieve the same result.
Coda File Systems for Disconnected mode operation .
I Did go thru the link in above post, But as per the product description I think the phone user can connect to his PC and access the files , but any other phone user doesnt have access to to FS on the computer.
Checking the forums at http://forum.telexy.com/, I saw that there is a forum for questions regarding using the phone as a server. So remote access to phone FS must be there, I guess.
You did not yet explain what you want to do once you have your Coda File System running on the phone, so it's not possible to tell whether your problem has another solution, given that this file system probably is not available on Symbian.
Disconnected Mode Operation is one of the important features of Coda.
So am trying to implement the same over Symbian Phones.
Disconnected Mode ( from Wiki)
Coda uses a local cache to provide access to server data when the network connection is lost. During normal operation, a user reads and writes to the file system normally, while the client fetches, or "hoards", all of the data the user has listed as important in the event of network disconnection. If the network connection is lost, the Coda client's local cache serves data from this cache and logs all updates. This operating state is called disconnected operation.
I don't know of anything such for symbian (not that I've looked either)
But I see no reason it shouldn't be possible to implement.
Only thing to think of is that you would need a PublisherID during development, and you have to go through Symbian Signed testing to be able to distribute it to any phone.
This is because file system plugins need to be signed with capabilities you can only get if you have a Publisher ID.
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I don't think there is, because in general there is little to no support available for file systems in Symbian except the built-in file system driving internal and external flash memory. There seems to be a mechanism to implement new file system drivers, but I don't know of anybody doing it and making the result available in public.
But could you tell an example for such a "distributed file system" on another OS, and explain what you would like to do with it on a Symbian phone? Maybe there are other ways to achieve the same result.
René Brunner
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See also existing products that do something like this. E.g., SymSMB: http://www.telexy.com/Products/Products.aspx
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Coda File Systems for Disconnected mode operation .
I Did go thru the link in above post, But as per the product description I think the phone user can connect to his PC and access the files , but any other phone user doesnt have access to to FS on the computer.
Thanks for the info,
BMK
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Checking the forums at http://forum.telexy.com/, I saw that there is a forum for questions regarding using the phone as a server. So remote access to phone FS must be there, I guess.
You did not yet explain what you want to do once you have your Coda File System running on the phone, so it's not possible to tell whether your problem has another solution, given that this file system probably is not available on Symbian.
René Brunner
Forum posts: 4
Disconnected Mode Operation is one of the important features of Coda.
So am trying to implement the same over Symbian Phones.
Disconnected Mode ( from Wiki)
Coda uses a local cache to provide access to server data when the network connection is lost. During normal operation, a user reads and writes to the file system normally, while the client fetches, or "hoards", all of the data the user has listed as important in the event of network disconnection. If the network connection is lost, the Coda client's local cache serves data from this cache and logs all updates. This operating state is called disconnected operation.
Thanks,
BMK
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I don't know of anything such for symbian (not that I've looked either)
But I see no reason it shouldn't be possible to implement.
Only thing to think of is that you would need a PublisherID during development, and you have to go through Symbian Signed testing to be able to distribute it to any phone.
This is because file system plugins need to be signed with capabilities you can only get if you have a Publisher ID.