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Hi, We did it, and I have mixed feelings about the new coda 6 release. The update took me longer than neccessary, mostly because I had some leftover sticky tags in my CVS sources. Exporting and importing the pdb I had to do manually, since pdbtool import complained about users for a group it couldn't find. The realms awareness without backwards compatibility is a pain in the a**. To exagerate it: why bother about compatibility with 5.3.x clients, if neither installed programs (-rpath /coda/vol/gnu/lib) nor configuration (ln -s /coda/homes/sneumann/.fvwmrc /homes/sneumann) files work anymore ?! I'd like to see some soft migration, and the coda/realms hack with a zillion links is no solution, since all links clutter the /coda root volume on 5.3.x clients. While new software will be installed into the new realms, we don't want to re-compile and re-configure our ~20G Software by 40 Users and 30 Projects. Is there a way to overcome the read-only-ness of 6.0 /coda and place *forward* links like ln -s /coda/aipc1.tech ... .de/homes /coda/homes into the new clients ? The old clients wouldn't see those links like with the realms hack. Or maybe have something like the realms hack, but don't point to that root volume, but to an intermediate volume: old 5.3.x: Root Volume Users/Projects /coda/homes/ sneumann/ /coda/vol/ gnu/ (homes and vol are simple directories right now) New 5.3.x: Root Volume intermediate Users/Projects volume /coda homes/ sneumann/ /coda vol/ gnu/ ( The new intermediates simply hold the mountpoints for users/projects ) New 6.x : No Root real Realm Users/Projects /coda aipc1.te ... .de/homes sneumann/ aipc1.te ... .de/vol gnu/ aditionally: faked Realm Users/Projects /coda homes->aipc1. ... .de/homes vol->aipc1. ... .de/vol The two faked realms have different root volumes, thus no need for the old soltion backwards-links. Apart of that things work smoothly so far, and I am looking forward to see more computer science groups in Bielefeld move to coda, so that we start actually *using*(1) the realms stuff. This will greatly improve acceptance within our user base. Yours, Steffen (1) today was the first time I had a look into the testserver, you might want to clean it up a bit;-)Received on 2003-07-29 12:37:19