This looks like useful information. This is what I have in my syslog
on the client that fails to mount /coda:

coda_read_super: device index: 0
coda_read_super: rootfid is (0x7f000001,0x1,0x1)
Failure of coda_cnode_make for root: error -110

I found this message in the archive:

http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/maillists/codalist/codalist-1999/1212.html

... but I _know_ there's a root volume because I can mount it on my
laptop and on the server.

On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 11:25:41AM -0700, R. Church quipped:
> On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 09:41:00AM -0400, Casey Helfrich quipped:
> > 
> > Have you created a root volume on the server?
> 
> I created the root volume on the server. In fact, I've since been able
> to mount that root volume on my laptop, but this workstation continues
> to "CHILD: mount system call failed. Killing parent".
> 
> On an unrelated note, the Coda documentation suggests a maximum client
> cache size of 100 megabytes. What are the repurcusions of using a much
> larger cache of, for example, 4 gigabytes?
>