Coda File System

Re: coda & reasonable cache sizes

From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt_at_metux.de>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 00:00:35 +0200
* shivers_at_ccs.neu.edu <shivers_at_ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

Hi,

> Note that if coda were rock solid and scaled like this, 
> then you would never have to waste disk space setting up 
> RAID arrays on every disk system in your life -- you'd 
> only need to RAID your coda *server*, while all your 
> client boxes could run un-RAIDed.

AFAIK, if you run multiple mirrored servers, you probably can 
even live w/o RAID. If one system fails, another one jumps in.

But I didn't test this yet. Probably depends on Coda's behaviour
on broken storage. 

So the big question is: what happens if the an underlying FS fails ?
Does Coda properly detect this and drive to some clean state
(ie. take an damaged volume offline and kick clients to the 
next server ?)


cu
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