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I'm just getting a cluster of Coda clients and serves up to speed. Three servers, about 10 clients, about 10 users. Everybody's home directories served over Coda, with a (probably insecure) strategy of automatically giving a token to every UID every day. Two of the clients are served over wireless Ethernet with a bandwidth of about 1.1 Mbps (practically; that's for ftp connections within the local network). It's slower than Real Ethernet but not *that* slow. For some reason, running a make on a wireless-served client on a big shared (coda-served) source tree just completely hoses the client. I'd expect it to be stressful.. lots of files deleted and created, lots of files changing content. In any case, the client often gets in a state where "ls" and "ls -l" show completely different sets of files, and one or two files get marked as inconsistent and need to be fixed with repair. Sometimes repair works, sometimes it doesn't. Also, I get a lot of this "Cannot create regular file: Connection timed out." This is a pain in the butt. What's going on? In general, is there any way to say "Force synchronization of all volumes right now, and I mean it?" Seems like reintegration messages pop up VERY slowly when changes are happening fairly rapidly. I'd like clients on multiple machines to have a somewhat-uniform view of a shared filesystem, or at least some way to speed up synchronization when it's important. coda clients and servers 5.2.7, Linux 2.2.10, kernel-venus module 5.2.3. Thanks, Bill GribbleReceived on 1999-07-06 08:46:44