>Now, about a "diskless setups". You do not want to be really diskless,
>as Coda needs place to cache the files. As you supposedly have more files
>than RAM, you definitely need place on a local disk.
>I assume it is how you set up your machines, but better safe than sorry,
>so I say it.
>
>Cheers,
>--
>Ivan

Does venus have any known problems caching on ramdisk  I plan on using machines with no disks and 6GB of RAM with a ramdisk of 4GB for the base OS (currently 140MB) and the cached content.  So the venus.cache should exist on on /dev/ram0 mounted on /.  If everthing goes to plan....which it seldom does.






Ivan Popov wrote:

>Hi John,
>
>On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 09:10:19AM -0700, John Anderson wrote:
>  
>
>>vice-setup script choosing mostly default values.  The / volume that was 
>>created during this process is named after the hostname of the machine I 
>>was testing on (kickstart.hq.local).  I PXE booted a client machine, and 
>>from the shell ran venus-setup and venus-init.   I then cd'ed into /coda 
>>and saw another directory kickstart.hq.local, so I cd'ed into that one 
>>and created some files which showed up on other PXE clients.  I guessed 
>>it was working.  However I was under the impression that the / 
>>filesystem volume would mount on /coda/ in the client's filesystems 
>>instead of /coda/servername as it seems to work.  Is this correct usage 
>>or did I screw something up?
>>    
>>
>
>the root volume of a realm is accessible as
>/coda/realm.name/
>which makes it possible to use Coda globally.
>
>You may have read a really old documentation, before realms were supported.
>
>  
>
>>My next question has more to do with best practices.  I'll be mounting 
>>coda volumes that would usually be located under /usr/lib/per5, 
>>/var/www/, /etc/httpd, etc.  Can Coda mount volumes using these types of 
>>directories as mountpoints, or is it a better idea (maybe the only 
>>    
>>
>
>Coda mountpoints can exist only on Coda.
>
>  
>
>>idea?) to mount the necessary volumes under /coda/servername, and 
>>symlink them out the appropriate areas?
>>    
>>
>
>You can use symlinks.
>
>Now, about a "diskless setups". You do not want to be really diskless,
>as Coda needs place to cache the files. As you supposedly have more files
>than RAM, you definitely need place on a local disk.
>I assume it is how you set up your machines, but better safe than sorry,
>so I say it.
>
>Cheers,
>--
>Ivan
>
>
>
>  
>

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