FW: codasrv dissapears. Can someone help please.

2002-09-25 Thread Timothy Kersten
I still have no sollution. I have followed all the steps for installation but codasrv just vanishes? Thanks. -Original Message- From: Timothy Kersten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 24 September 2002 8:57 PM To: 'Jan Harkes' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: codasrv dissapear

Re: Docs are inconsistent: Virtual Memory

2002-09-25 Thread Phil Nelson
Hi Derek, > This implies that, if I want a 25 Gig volume (with its 1 Gig RVM >metadata storage file), I need a 1 Gig Linux Swap partition (assuming that >the term "virtual memory" above refers to the Linux swap partition). > > Yet Phil Nelson gave me his NetBSD example that shows th

Docs are inconsistent: Virtual Memory

2002-09-25 Thread Derek Simkowiak
After reading through the docs yet again, there appears to be inconsistent information in the admin guide regarding virtual memory. The admin guide says (From http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/manual/installsvr.html): -- Virtual memory. The metadata, held in the RVM data file,

Re: Some questions...

2002-09-25 Thread Brian Jackson
Derek Simkowiak writes: >> just have 2 computers that are going to be using the data, > > It will first be two, but then should grow up to "several" nodes. > the firewire code in linux supports 4 hosts connecting to one device. as do most of the firewire drives. Fibre channel supports

Re: Some questions...

2002-09-25 Thread Jan Harkes
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 11:01:33AM -0700, Derek Simkowiak wrote: > > try just a cluster{ed|ing} file system. > > That's what I'm after. How is CODA not a "cluster{ed|ing}" > filesystem? Coda is a distributed filesystem. The main difference (in my mind) is that a distributed filesystem ass

Re: Some questions...

2002-09-25 Thread Derek Simkowiak
> just have 2 computers that are going to be using the data, It will first be two, but then should grow up to "several" nodes. > try just a cluster{ed|ing} file system. That's what I'm after. How is CODA not a "cluster{ed|ing}" filesystem? > OpenGFS, http://opengfs.or

Re: Some questions...

2002-09-25 Thread Brian Jackson
Sorry it took so long to reply I was trying to see how the answers panned out for you. If I understand you correctly Coda might be a little bit of overkill. If you just have 2 computers that are going to be using the data, you may want to try just a cluster{ed|ing} file system. OpenGFS, Oracl