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
ks, > and because CODA can support more than one backup copy (i.e., several > nodes can be in sync at once). > > Reading over the docs, some questions came up. The first one > is... what should the "big picture" of this setup look like? Would each > node in the c

Re: Some questions...

2002-09-24 Thread Ivan Popov
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Ivan Popov wrote: > I'm running typically with 90Mb cache. Oops! No I am not. :-) I mean 90 K == about 900 M of course. Hope nobody has taken literally. Yours, -- Ivan

Re: Maximum volume size (was: Some questions...)

2002-09-24 Thread Phil Nelson
Hi Derek, > First, can you substantiate your claim about the 1 Gig RVM limit? It depends on the model your system uses. Most systems with a 32 bit address space have a 4G VM limit. In some cases, the OS takes 2G for the OS. Other OSes take less. You then need space for code, stack and

Re: Maximum volume size (was: Some questions...)

2002-09-24 Thread Ivan Popov
Hello Derek, On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Derek Simkowiak wrote: > > Unfortunately, you can not count with having more than about 1G RVM per > > one server process. > > First, can you substantiate your claim about the 1 Gig RVM limit? > I just need something harder than "some guy on the mailing li

Maximum volume size (was: Some questions...)

2002-09-24 Thread Derek Simkowiak
> trying to answer some questions based on my own experience, your mileage > may vary. Thank you for your help. > I run a server with 4G and another one with about 10G, for a long time. Excellent! Just the real-world proof I was looking for. I wish this stuff were d

Re: Some questions...

2002-09-24 Thread Ivan Popov
Hello Derek, trying to answer some questions based on my own experience, your mileage may vary. On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Derek Simkowiak wrote: > load-balanced cluster. They will drag and drop files to this WebDAV > share, which will result in Apache/mod_dav writing a file to the th

Some questions...

2002-09-24 Thread Derek Simkowiak
ckup copy (i.e., several nodes can be in sync at once). Reading over the docs, some questions came up. The first one is... what should the "big picture" of this setup look like? Would each node in the cluster need to run both the CODA server _and_ client software? I assume so, otherwise, how co

Re: some questions

2000-03-08 Thread Shafeeq Sinnamohideen
On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, August [iso-8859-1] Hörandl wrote: > > Hi, > I am a teacher in a technical high school in vienna, austria > > We are considering coda and linux. We have got about 1500 pupils > and 200 teachers working on about 170 workstations You should be aware that Coda is at best bet

some questions

2000-03-07 Thread August Hörandl
Hi, I am a teacher in a technical high school in vienna, austria We are considering coda and linux. We have got about 1500 pupils and 200 teachers working on about 170 workstations I would like to use coda for the home dirs and most of the programs (/usr and /opt); the server to be is a piii 45

Some questions in evaluating CODA

1999-06-28 Thread Soren Dayton
Hi, I'm thinking about using coda in a development environment because of the disconnected/slow connection benefits, and I'm not sure how to evaluate the stability kinds of issues. In principle, I'm very impressed and very excited, but I don't know what the particularities are going to be like