There are a couple of issues here:
We don't directly maintain Coda for NetBSD's other than the x86
platform here. So I hope that others port and test Coda for
the other platforms. I have some porting notes that I'll commit
to the coda/ kernel directory. Its not hard to port.
Now as Phil noted there is a problem in the sparc/sparc/conf.c
file. So if you did not use an lkm, /dev/cfs0 is not in the
cdevsw and you will not be able to open /dev/cfs0. venus will
exit if it can not open /dev/cfs0. So you should double check
that venus us running on your machine. If not and if /coda is
700 that would explain the permisions problem.
But, lkm's are different it turns out. The way the coda.o lkm
is set up, it will just make /dev/cfs0 major 60 (independent of
what might have been there [good for x86 maybe not so good for
other platforms]). What this means is that if you
successfully load the lkm coda.o, venus should work. Modulo
the problem that Jan just fixed by upgrading the testserver.
Lastly, we'd need some more info/logs as to why the server failed
to help you with it.
Scott Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Cool, well if I get a chance today I'll look into it or tonight after
> dinner.
>
> FWIW, I added optiosn CODA and pseudo-device vcoda 3 and rebuilt/rebooted,
> still didn't work (that was actually the first thing I did, because at the
> time I was unaware of the undocumented *grumble* behavior of lkm where you
> have to be in single user to actually *load* an lkm).
>
> Scott
>
> On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Phil Nelson wrote:
>
> >
> > Scott Smith wrote:
> >
> > >but ls /coda gave operation not permitted or something..
> >
> > After looking at the source for NetBSD/sparc, it appears that
> > the support for coda was not completely added. There is no
> > entry for the character device /dev/cfs0 in the sparc kernel.
> > I don't know if the lkm is supposed to add this or not.
> >
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> >
> >
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