Coda File System

newbie server question

From: Dave Thomas <davelists_at_imagesmiths.com>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 16:52:14 -0700
I've got a really basic problem here:

I want to move files from the server (it's a linux 2.2.18 box) 
onto the coda share.

Since files seem to be created on /vicepa/0/0... this isn't as
trivial a problem that I at first thought.

So I tried setting up the client binaries on the server, but
it gets *really* unhappy when I try to write to it:

# /etc/rc.d/init.d/venus.init  start
Starting venus: done.
16:56:05 /usr/coda/LOG size is 242688 bytes
16:56:05 /usr/coda/DATA size is 964944 bytes
16:56:05 Loading RVM data
16:56:05 Last init was Mon May 14 15:55:26 2001
16:56:05 Last shutdown was clean
16:56:05 starting VDB scan
16:56:05        2 volume replicas
16:56:05        1 replicated volumes
16:56:05        0 CML entries allocated
16:56:05        0 CML entries on free-list
16:56:05 starting FSDB scan (337, 8096) (25, 75, 4)
16:56:05        5 cache files in table (1 blocks)
16:56:05        332 cache files on free-list
16:56:05 starting HDB scan
16:56:05        0 hdb entries in table
16:56:05        0 hdb entries on free-list
16:56:05 Getting Root Volume information...
16:56:05 Venus starting...
16:56:06 /coda now mounted.

# clog "adminuser"
username: adminuser
Password: 
16:57:46 root acquiring Coda tokens!

the login works:
16:57:46 In PWGetKeys()
16:57:46        vid = 2
16:57:46        vid = 2
16:57:46 AuthNewConn(0x17b8cc2c, 0, 66, 2, 2)


I can read files and move around the directory tree.  But I can't
write:

# cat >> /coda/tempfile
lawerlshlkjha
cat: write error: No such file or directory

Somehow my approach looks wrong, but my only interim solution is
open an FTP session from the client, and move files from the
local disk onto the client-mounted coda device.  But this kinda 
defeats the purpose of using a distributed filesystem...

How is this supposed to work?

Dave
Received on 2001-05-14 19:51:33