Sorry for that post, looks like i posted it from the wrong email addr.


cheers,
-lou


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Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 09:03:48 +0000
From: Lou Kamenov <lou.k_at_hq.aeye.net>
To: Jan Harkes <jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu>
Cc: codalist_at_coda.cs.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: coda server crash


In some email I received from Jan Harkes <jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu> on Sun, 18 May 2003
13:46:45 -0400, wrote:

> > - I read on some docs that write-replicate the root-volume was dangerous 
> > because a conflict on this volume would freeze the whole cluster.... ( 
> > got to try  this too to see....) !
> 
> When the root directory of the root volume becomes a conflict, /coda is
> turned into a symlink. However, this object is not really under our
> control. So depending on the kernel we either have a directory that is
> inaccessible, or it actually becomes a symlink. In both cases we cannot
> reach the magic '/coda/.CONTROL' file that is used as the special object
> by cfs and repair to sends commands to venus (like 'cfs beginrepair').
> 
> As a result it becomes impossible to repair the conflict. The only way
> out is to create a temporary volume (i.e. tmproot) and start venus with
> '-rootvolume tmproot', mount the problematic rootvolume and repair the
> conflict. Again CVS fixes this because the top level (readonly)
> directory contains locally generated 'cell names' on which the various
> rootvolumes are mounted.

About CVS, when are these changes going to be packed into a release?
Any timeline, or any major changes? If there's a paper where I can read it,
that would be great!

thansk in advance Jan.

cheers


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