Until recently, Coda's documents were seriously out of date. They didn't cover new commands and new options which had been added to the system in the past two years. They referred to and described at length several procedures which depended essentially on commands which no longer exist. And sometimes they were completely misleading. Since I gave the first version of this talk, this has improved substantially; a new version of the Admin manual has been produced which corrects many of these faults.
For example, the Admin manual in several places recommended that you create a replicated read-only root volume for your cell, and gave details of how to do this. The procedure didn't work, and is not supported in the current version of Coda.
Disconnected operation involves running `hoard walk'; this appears in the manual, but not in the man page for hoard, which is quite incomplete. Saving Coda tokens for disconnected operation does not appear in the documentation, nor are there instructions for starting venus in disconnected mode. The cfs subcommand `fr' or `forcereintegrate' does not appear in the documentation.
In short, the documentation has flaws and omissions; it still needs some work.