Re: diskless coda client

2000-03-06 Thread Laszlo Vecsey
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Jan Harkes wrote: > Also cfs/repair etc. will stop working as they talk to venus through a > special control file in /coda. Is your cache stored in that ram-disk as > well? Why not avoid the chroot and create some symlinks like: > > /usr -> /coda/usr > /home -> /coda/home >

Re: diskless coda client

2000-03-06 Thread Jan Harkes
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 07:09:46AM -0500, Laszlo Vecsey wrote: > I've tried running venus with '-rvmt 3' as was suggested on this list for > a diskless coda client machine, but it causes venus to die with an error > I've pasted below. This is with glibc and a Linu

Re: diskless coda client

2000-03-06 Thread August Hörandl
Laszlo Vecsey wrote: > > The next thing I'm working on is chroot'ing into the /coda partition, but > I've run into a problem. 'mknod' files don't appear on it, and so I'm at a > loss as to what to do with the devices in /dev. I thought of mounting > another ram drive as /dev, but in order to do t

Re: diskless coda client

2000-03-06 Thread Robert Forsman
Keith Winstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ,in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .edu>, wrote: > One easy solution is to create an ext2 filesystem with your devices > in it, stick that in Coda, and then mount that loopback onto /dev. Dear god. The image would be in cache till the machine went down

Re: diskless coda client

2000-03-06 Thread Keith Winstein
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 07:09:46AM -0500, Laszlo Vecsey wrote: > The next thing I'm working on is chroot'ing into the /coda partition, but > I've run into a problem. 'mknod' files don't appear on it, and so I'm at a > loss as to what to do with the devices in /dev. I thought of mounting > another

diskless coda client

2000-03-05 Thread Laszlo Vecsey
I've tried running venus with '-rvmt 3' as was suggested on this list for a diskless coda client machine, but it causes venus to die with an error I've pasted below. This is with glibc and a Linux 2.2.14 kernel, coda 5.3.5. I'm actually posting this from a diskless coda