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On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Jan Harkes wrote: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 01:38:19PM -0800, Josh Logan wrote: > > > > I have three machines. Is it possible to have the 2nd and 3rd machine > > share a volume that is not on the SCM? > > > > I would like to have a central SCM machines that shares it's contents to a > > bunch of remote machines, but I want a pair of remote machines to have > > local content that is not pushed back up to the SCM. Is this possible, or > > does the SCM always have to be part of a volume? > > No, the SCM is only special in that it is the read/write copy of the > shared databases. Users, passwords and volumes creation is done from the > SCM, although the volumes can reside on any VSG (volume storage group). > > The VSG's are defined in /vice/db/VSGDB, when it contains f.i. > > E0000500 notscm1 notscm2 > > # createvol_rep newvolume E0000500 > > will create the replicated volume on the servers notscm1 and notscm2. > > > > > BTW, this currently looks like: > > root_at_sysops1:~# ls -l /coda/ > > total 5 > > lrw-r--r-- 1 joshl nogroup 7 Nov 10 13:25 local -> #local > > lrw-r--r-- 1 joshl nogroup 11 Nov 10 13:26 local-stu -> > > #local-stu > > drw-r--r-- 3 root nogroup 2048 Nov 9 10:57 office > > drwxrwxrwx 2 root nogroup 2048 Nov 8 16:28 staff > > > > V_BindToServer: binding to host joshl-laptop.internap.com > > Wlocal.1 I3000006 H3 P/usr/opt/CODA/vicepa m0 M0 U2 W3000006 C3a0c6716 > > D3a0c6716 B0 A0 > > Wlocal-stu.1 I3000007 H3 P/usr/opt/CODA/vicepa m0 M0 U2 W3000007 C3a0c675a > > D3a0c675a B0 A0 > > GetVolumeList finished successfully > > Maybe the VRDB and VLDB databases haven't been replicated to all servers > yet? Check the timestamps/sizes of /vice/db/VRDB and VLDB on the > servers. > That was it. One of the servers did not get the update. restarted the services and it worked immediately! Is there a way to find out if a server is not getting updates? Later, JOSHReceived on 2000-11-10 17:45:32