On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 11:58:55AM -0500, Laszlo Vecsey wrote:
> Well I'm on the verge of testing a diskless coda system with 256mb ram. I
> figure I can set aside a 20mb or 30mb ram drive for coda to use as local
> cache -- for the time being I'll probably mount things as NFS though, i.e.
> system programs and for mass storage purposes. But for hosting a
> nameserver, radius, email daemon and so forth I think coda is ideal.

Hmm, you might want to play around with the -rvmt flag for venus then. 

If you use a ram-drive for the cache, you can use RVM in degraded mode.
"-rvmt 3" will not use a backing file on disk to persistently store
changes. It is like always starting venus with the -init flag. And the
data will not be in memory twice (once in the ramdisk RVM data file and
once in Venus's memory).

> I'd also like to see what the possibilities are for having coda machines
> that can bootp off of each other, with the kernel images stored on coda
> partitions. !!

Interesting, but don't you then get a chicken or egg problem when the
power fails ;)

Jan