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On Wed October 19 2005 01:53, Ivan Popov wrote: > Hi Jerry, > > > Even with the / volume created first, I still can't see the others... > > Have you created both the volumes and mountpoints for them? Woo-hoo!! That was it... [root_at_aspen ~]# cfs mkm /coda/example.com/mail mail [root_at_aspen ~]# cfs mkm /coda/example.com/www www [root_at_aspen ~]# cfs mkm /coda/example.com/docs docs [root_at_aspen ~]# [root_at_oak coda]# ls -lR /coda/example.com/ /coda/example.com/: total 6 drwxrwxrwx 1 root nfsnobody 2048 Oct 19 01:23 docs drwxrwxrwx 1 root nfsnobody 2048 Oct 19 01:23 mail drwxrwxrwx 1 root nfsnobody 2048 Oct 19 01:23 www /coda/example.com/docs: total 0 /coda/example.com/mail: total 0 /coda/example.com/www: total 0 Now there's mountpoints too? That was new to me - don't recall mention of it anywhere except the man page.... > > Also, if > > I do manage to see additional volumes, what's the advantage of them over > > just directories made under the / volume? Access control, I suppose... > > more? > > Wonder if there are some explanations on the Wiki, certainly were on the > list. > > Volumes are Codas "natural" units of data. > > By volume you > - setup replication > - backup > - set quota > - repair conflicts > - reintegrate changes > - implicitely serialize some other operations > > so you do not want them to be too big, it is going to be both inconvenient > and inefficient (slow). > > Access control though is done per directory, not per volume. So what's the purpose of the "mountpoint"? Thanks a bunch, jerryReceived on 2005-10-19 08:40:05