Hello,

Four questions about hoarding and disconnected use (I'll be grateful
if anybody can answer any of them, particularly number 4...):

(1) On my tiny (two host) coda cell, I find I'm not able to hoard as
an unprivileged (non-root) user on the clients.  I've tried adding my
uid to /etc/coda/venus.conf (primaryuser=<uid>), but the errors remain
consistent.  I am able to hoard as root, however.  How does one hoard
as a non-root user?

Here's my hoardfile:

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a /coda/ramsey.localdomain/home/kreuter 600:d+
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Here's a transcript of an attempt to have hoard read this file:

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kreuter_at_ramsey:~$ hoard -f hoard.hdb
pioctl:Add(7f000004_at_ramsey.localdomain, ., 600, 5, 1000): Permission denied
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The kreuter user on the clients has authenticated via clog, and can
access the files in this case.

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(2) Next, when I try 'hoard walk' (as root), watching the log I see
many of the following error:

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[ H(07) : 0009 : 17:14:36 ] fsdb::Create: (5084a7c8.7f000004.1556.d6c,
45000) failed
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hoard reports failing to cache many files, and these files then show
up with an asterisk in the output of 'cfs lc'.  After disconnecting,
these files are unavailable to the client.  Is there a limit to the
number of files I can hoard?

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(3) In general, what is the recommended usage pattern for hoard?  I've
monitored the venus.log on the coda client, and it seems that
hoard/venus caches somewhat periodically in the background, but
despite this, before disconnecting 'hoard walk' still takes a couple
minutes (I'm trying to hoard about 1GB, I suppose).  Is this normal?

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(4) Finally, in my first attempt to reboot after hoarding and
disconnecting, venus started, but failed to mount (?) the root volume
for my realm (all I have is a dangling symlink in /coda after venus
mounts /coda).  'cfs lc' shows the cache in its state from before
disconnecting, but I can't figure out how to access the stuff I've
hoarded.  The coda server's IP address is stored properly in
/etc/hosts, too.  Any suggestions?

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Thank you in advance,
Richard