Good Morning,
I have read about coda and i have success fully installed it on a server and
have a client connected to it.
And I would be very much grateful if i get the answers for the following

1. from venus.conf i see that maximun files to hoard is 85.
   Is it possible to hoard a directory instead. A directory which has files
continuously being updated, and more files added to it.

2. I am trying to have a replication server as well and i followed the
instruction from.
   http://coda.wikidev.net/Dynamically_add_replicated_server
   http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/maillists/codalist/codalist-2004/6180.html
   http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/maillists/codalist/codalist-2005/7400.html
   http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/maillists/codalist/codalist-2005/7346.html

 And its still not working correctly.. i mean i should be able to store a
complete copy of a replicated volume onto the new server.

Let me explain

server1 is the SCM with VRlist as follows

root_at_server1:/vice/db# more VRList
/ 7f000000 1 02000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 0
codaroot 7f000001 1 02000002 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 0
dir 7f000002 1 02000003 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
.................
client1 is the client to server1 and did the following
..................

createvol_rep dir server1
cfs mkm /coda/server1/dir dir

root_at_server1:/coda/server1/dir# ls
root_at_server1:/coda/server1/dir# touch file.txt
root_at_server1:/coda/server1/dir# touch file.txt
root_at_server1:/coda/server1/dir# ls
file.txt
root_at_server1:/coda/server1/dir# echo test file > file.txt
root_at_server1:/coda/server1/dir# more file.txt
test file
...............
dir was create rw and ready to be used and want to replicate it to another
server.

server2 was created with no scm and authenticated to with server1.
RVM was created on server2
..............................

As the wiki suggested these are the steps i followed.

1. Create a line for the replica server in the server.conf

root_at_server1:/vice/db# more servers
server1           2
server2           3
root_at_server1:/vice/db#

2. Restart the server on the scm so that the changes to the server file take
effect.

3. check for any conflict

root_at_server1:/vice/db# volutil setlogparms 7f000002 reson 4
V_BindToServer: binding to host server1
Set Log parameters
root_at_server1:/vice/db#

.....................

4. Created a new volume id

root_at_server1:/vice/db# volutil -h server2 create_rep /vicepa dir.1 7f000002

V_BindToServer: binding to host server2
Volume 03000001 (dir.1) created
root_at_server1:/vice/db#

5. VRList changed to the following

dir 7f000002 1 02000003 03000001 0 0 0 0 0 0

root_at_server1:/vice/db# more VRList
/ 7f000000 1 02000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 0
codaroot 7f000001 1 02000002 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 0
dir 7f000002 1 02000003 03000001 0 0 0 0 0 0


6.
root_at_server1:/vice/db# bldvldb.sh server1
Fetching volume lists from servers:
V_BindToServer: binding to host server2
GetVolumeList finished successfully
 server2 - success
V_BindToServer: binding to host server1
VLDB completed.
root_at_server1:/vice/db#

7. Copy Data to new server
cfs checkservers

8.restarted both servers and clients.

9. Started venus and connected both client to server1.

10. cfs flushobject dir

root_at_server1:/coda/server1# cfs flushobject /coda/server1/web/
        DANGER:   these files will be lost, if disconnected
        Do you really want to do this? [n] y
        Fools rush in where angels fear to tread ........
Can't flush active file
root_at_server1:/coda/server1#

Note: On both servers VRList are the same.

I tried cfs  flushobject several times and still no success.

Please tell me how to get replication sorted out.

One last Question:
when replication works - can each client be connected to different servers?

Many thanks to CODA team.

Ziggy