Hi,
I'm currently working at two different locations with a too poor
connection between to be able to have all my data at one of the places
to work effectively from both offices. I've just set up a machine
running venus and another running vice on FreeBSD 2.8 and 3.0
respectively to find out if Coda could help me here.
My intention is to have the SCM on a laptop and venus on all of the
workstations I use at all the places I have to go working. I will
also have a vice on at least one workstation at each office which will
hold a read-only replica of all volumes in order to do backups easily.
I guess I could also benefit from this setup if I can teach my venus
to fetch files from the vice on the same machine, but haven't come
that far yet. I hesitate to make the replicated volumes read-write
since I am a bit afraid of the complexity. Any comments?
Anyway, I have a couple of initial questions:
* More tokens
Is it possible to have different coda tokens in separate
shells/windows? It looks like it's the process uid that determines
what coda token you ``have''. Is there a way around this or do I have
to su to another user and clog admin to avoid loosing my ordinary
token?
* CMU's fsck
The manual mentions in 5.4 a modified version of fsck needed for
checking coda data partitions. Where is that? It's not in the
coda-5.0.2 source package.
* System crashes when doing clog
Has anyone else suffered from client machine crashing when doing clog?
It's happened to me twice, so far. My setup is venus on a FreeBSD 2.8
and vice on a FreeBSD 3.0. I have now enabled DDB in the kernel in
hope of catching this the next time.
* Backup package
The Manual (Coda File System User and System Administrators Manual),
section 12.2 talks about a ``backup package'' to be installed on
Backup Coordinators. Where can that be found?
* Hoard walk and X11
I read somewhere in ``The Manual'' that you shouldn't be running X11
when doing a hoard walk? Is it true and if so, why is that?
Regards,
--linus
