Hi,
We did it, and I have mixed feelings about the new coda 6 release.
The update took me longer than neccessary,
mostly because I had some leftover sticky tags
in my CVS sources.
Exporting and importing the pdb I had to do manually,
since pdbtool import complained about users for a group
it couldn't find.
The realms awareness without backwards compatibility
is a pain in the a**. To exagerate it: why bother
about compatibility with 5.3.x clients, if neither
installed programs (-rpath /coda/vol/gnu/lib)
nor configuration (ln -s /coda/homes/sneumann/.fvwmrc /homes/sneumann)
files work anymore ?!
I'd like to see some soft migration,
and the coda/realms hack with a zillion links
is no solution, since all links clutter
the /coda root volume on 5.3.x clients.
While new software will be installed into
the new realms, we don't want to re-compile
and re-configure our ~20G Software by 40 Users
and 30 Projects.
Is there a way to overcome the read-only-ness
of 6.0 /coda and place *forward* links like
ln -s /coda/aipc1.tech ... .de/homes /coda/homes
into the new clients ? The old clients wouldn't
see those links like with the realms hack.
Or maybe have something like the realms hack,
but don't point to that root volume,
but to an intermediate volume:
old 5.3.x:
Root Volume Users/Projects
/coda/homes/
sneumann/
/coda/vol/
gnu/
(homes and vol are simple directories right now)
New 5.3.x:
Root Volume intermediate Users/Projects
volume
/coda
homes/
sneumann/
/coda
vol/
gnu/
( The new intermediates simply hold the mountpoints
for users/projects )
New 6.x :
No Root real Realm Users/Projects
/coda
aipc1.te ... .de/homes
sneumann/
aipc1.te ... .de/vol
gnu/
aditionally:
faked Realm Users/Projects
/coda
homes->aipc1. ... .de/homes
vol->aipc1. ... .de/vol
The two faked realms have different root volumes,
thus no need for the old soltion backwards-links.
Apart of that things work smoothly so far,
and I am looking forward to see more computer science groups
in Bielefeld move to coda, so that we start actually *using*(1)
the realms stuff. This will greatly improve acceptance
within our user base.
Yours,
Steffen
(1) today was the first time I had a look into
the testserver, you might want to clean it up a bit;-)
