From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <14ec7b180704121148u2b71565eg687b0f75c06b0516@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:48:28 -0600 From: "andrey mirtchovski" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: [sources] 20070410: % cat >/sys/lib/dist/changes/1176262206.1.txt << EOF In-Reply-To: <13426df10704121125m1fe1450fw51fdeea162d4cea4@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5247962e2f1f11c9b374c57d9a9a71db@cat-v.org> <5d375e920704120814x7df5749sd7b8524972878a85@mail.gmail.com> <9ab217670704120832k37d6e734u7d2b7edd9a6e4be0@mail.gmail.com> <5d375e920704120856i3501d43aw6412b2b1ca0b48e3@mail.gmail.com> <13426df10704121125m1fe1450fw51fdeea162d4cea4@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 45dc8a28-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 2. for big sites, it's just not practical at all. File per node on > 1024 or more nodes? it just won't go. And 1024 is not a lot. our 64-node cluster at lanl didn't have a /cfg. in fact, none of the clusters you've built with p9 have had a /cfg. the giant switch russ talks about is only two or three machines wide.