> I wonder if it is possible to replicate the root filesystem? 
root volume, sorry.

> start venus, pointing to 172.16.1.1
> ...
> 17:26:52        Found 5 realms
> 17:26:52 starting VDB scan
> 17:26:52        6 volume replicas
> 17:26:52        3 replicated volumes
> 17:26:52        0 CML entries allocated
> 17:26:52        2 CML entries on free-list
> 17:26:52 starting FSDB scan (4166, 20000) (25, 75, 4)
> 17:26:52        11 cache files in table (0 blocks)
> 17:26:52        4155 cache files on free-list
> 17:26:52 starting HDB scan
> 17:26:52        0 hdb entries in table
> 17:26:52        0 hdb entries on free-list
> 17:26:52 Mounting root volume...
> 17:26:52 Venus starting...
> coda_read_super: rootfid is (0xff000001.0x1.0x1)
> coda_read_super: rootinode is 1353984905 dev 9
> 17:26:52 /coda now mounted.
> 
> 5 Realms????
...

The reason that it did not work, was that I did not do a "venus -init". I had a different configuration before, so venus needed to be re-initialized.