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After having played around with Coda for a week or so now, I'm ready to try setting it up on a more realistic situation. I want to use it in an installation with 3 replicated servers and 10 clients. I'm currently using a single server with approx 500 Gb of disk. My question is; how should I configure the SCM when I set it up initially ? In particular, I would like some advice about the RVM settings and how to structure the volumes on my servers. As I understand it, the /vicepa partition is where the actual user data is contained. The RVM data and log partitions contain the meta-data associated with the user data. I'm concerned at the requirements for sizes of the RVM log and data partitions as I'm going to be storing a large number of small files. The vice-setup script indicates the RVM log partition/file should be 30M or less. Then the RVM data size seems to max out at 1Gb which (as I understand) should handle roughly 15-20Gb of user data. Given that my existing file-server is handling an order of magnitude more data, is Coda a suitable solution or should I be investigating alternative distributed storage solutions ? Thanks in advance. JeremyReceived on 2005-09-13 18:06:10