Hello, all.

I'm building my first coda server.  I built everything from source using today's release, Coda 6.1.2.  I have read through most of the available documentation/wiki and according to what I have read there should be a "magic" command which is generated by vice-setup (which is always right) that should be used for configuring my first volume.  

I just ran through vice-setup and I didn't receive a magic command.  Is the documentation outdated or did I miss something?  The User/System Admin Manual mentions using a createvol_rep command, but I don't I have all the information needed to complete my installation.

Since this is my first attempt, most of my settings are defaults, until I get a better idea.  Any help here would be great.

Stephane


This is my vice-setup:

coda0:/ # vice-setup
Welcome to the Coda Server Setup script!

Setting up config files for a coda server.
Do you want the file /etc/coda/server.conf created? [yes] yes
What is the root directory for your coda server(s)? [/vice]
Setting up /vice.
Directories under /vice are set up.

Is this the master server, aka the SCM machine? (y/n) y

Setting up tokens for authentication.
The following token must be identical on all servers.
Enter a random token for update authentication : 12345678
The following token must be identical on all servers.
Enter a random token for auth2 authentication : 12345678
The following token must be identical on all servers.
Enter a random token for volutil authentication : 12345678
tokens done!

Setting up the file list for update client
Filelist for update ready.
/etc/services already has new services registered! Good.
/etc/services ready for Coda
Now installing files specific to the SCM...

Setting up servers file.
Enter an id for the SCM server. (hostname coda0.omni-ts.com)
The serverid is a unique number between 0 and 255.
You should avoid 0, 127, and 255.
serverid: 1
done!
Setting up users and groups for Coda

You need to give me a uid (not 0 or 1) and username (not root)
for a Coda System:Administrator member on this server,
(sort of a Coda super user)

I will create the initial administrative user with Coda password
"changeme". This user/password is only for authenticating with
Coda and not for logging into your system (i.e. we don't use
/etc/passwd authentication for Coda)

Enter the uid of this user: 100
Enter the username of this user: admin

A server needs a small log file or disk partition, preferrably on a
disk by itself. It also needs a metadata file or partition of approx
4% of your filespace.

Raw partitions have advantages because we can write to the disk
faster, but we have to load a copy of the complete RVM data
partition into memory. With files we can use a private mmap, which
reduces memory pressure and speeds up server startup by several
orders of magnitude.

Servers with a smaller dataset but heavy write activity will
probably benefit from partitions. Mostly read-only servers with a
large dataset will definitely benefit from an RVM data file. Nobody
has really measured where the breakeven point is, so I cannot
really give any hard numbers.

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WARNING: you are going to play with your partitions now.
verify all answers you give.
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WARNING: these choices are not easy to change once you are up and running.

Are you ready to set up RVM? [yes/no] yes

What will be your log file (or partition)? /var/log/coda/rvm.log

The log size must be smaller than the available space in the log
partition. A smaller log will be quicker to commit, but the log
needs to be large enough to handle the largest transaction. A
larger log also allows for better optimizations. We recommend
to keep the log under 30M log size, many people have successfully
used as little as 2M, and 20M has worked well with our servers.
What is your log size? (enter as e.g. '20M')


The log size must be smaller than the available space in the log
partition. A smaller log will be quicker to commit, but the log
needs to be large enough to handle the largest transaction. A
larger log also allows for better optimizations. We recommend
to keep the log under 30M log size, many people have successfully
used as little as 2M, and 20M has worked well with our servers.
What is your log size? (enter as e.g. '20M') 20M

Where is your data file (or partition)? /var/data/coda

The amount of RVM we need to store the metadata for a given
amount file space can vary enormously. If your typical data set
consists of many small files, you definitely need more RVM, but
if you tend to store large files (mp3s, videos or image data)
we don't need all that much RVM.

Here are some random samples,
  mp3 files     ~0.08MB RVM per GB.
  jpeg images   ~0.50MB RVM per GB.
  email folders ~37.8MB RVM per GB (maildir, 1 file per message)
  netbsd-pkgsrc  ~180MB RVM per GB (large tree but not much data)

To get a more precize number for your dataset there is a small
tool (rvmsizer) which can reasonably predict the amount of RVM
data we need for a file tree.

Remember that RVM data will have to be mmapped or loaded
into memory, so if anything fails with an error like
RVM_EINTERNAL you might have to add more swap space.

What is the size of you data file (or partition)
[32M, 64M, 128M, 256M, 512M, 768M, 1G]: 1G

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your size is an experimental size. Be warned!
You may want to run with private mapping for RVM.


--------------------------------------------------------
WARNING: DATA and LOG partitions are about to be wiped.
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  --- log area: /var/log/coda/rvm.log, size 20M.
  --- data area: /var/data/coda, size 1024 MB.

Proceed, and wipe out old data? [y/n] y


LOG file has been initialized!


Rdsinit will initialize data and log.
This takes a while.
rvm_initialize succeeded.
Going to initialize data file to zero, could take awhile.
done.
rds_zap_heap completed successfully.
rvm_terminate succeeded.

RVM setup is done!


Directories on the server will be used to store container files
that hold the actual data of files stored in Coda. Directory
contents as well as metadata will be stored in the RVM segment
that we already configured earlier.

You should only have one container file hierarchy for each disk
partition, otherwise the server will generate incorrect
estimates about the actual amount of exportable disk space.

Where shall we store your file data [/vicepa]?
Shall I set up a vicetab entry for /vicepa (y/n) y
Select the maximum number of files for the server.
[256K, 1M, 2M, 16M]:
1M

Server directory /vicepa is set up!

Congratulations: your configuration is ready...

Shall I try to get things started? (y/n) y
 - Coda authentication server (auth2 &)
 - Coda update server (updatesrv)
 - Coda update client (updateclnt -h coda0.omni-ts.com)
Creating /vice/spool
 - Coda file server (startserver)
coda0:/ #