From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:41:47 -0800 From: "Roman V. Shaposhnik" In-reply-to: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-id: <1233960107.6196.54.camel@goose.sun.com> References: Subject: Re: [9fans] FileServer grid Topicbox-Message-UUID: 983493a4-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 23:26 +0100, Giacomo Tesio wrote: > Hello every one... > In a context of really heavy load and high availability needs, I'm > evaluating plan 9 to implement a fileserver grid to be used by a web > server for temporary storage (session's serializations, for example). What OS do you web servers run under? > I'd like to build a Plan 9 grid exposing a unique filesystem mounted > by all the web servers. Are you going to talk to this filesystem using 9P or something else? > Each session could be accessible from any web server instantly, but > what if a fileserver in the grid break? > Is there a way to mantain such a session (actually the file storing > the session data) available by keeping it sincronized beetween the > Plan 9 fileservers? This is unclear. Please restate. Thanks, Roman.