[9fans] u9fs file servers

[9fans] u9fs file servers

[andrey mirtchovski]

looking through the archives to find out whether there is a way to use u9fs
as the file server for a plan9 installation (not enough hardware available
at the moment, vmware notwithstanding) i came upon this message:

	http://www.fywss.com/plan9/info/u9fs

it's dated 1995, so my question is can u9fs still be used as a file server
for a plan9 non-standalone installation?

i can make a machine act as a cpu/auth/kfs server but i really want to
boot diskless cpus...

thanx, andrey

Re: [9fans] u9fs file servers

[David Presotto]

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If you can set up a system to be a cpu/auth/kfs server, why can't
you boot the diskless machines off of that or am I missing something?

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From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] u9fs file servers
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 08:56:38 -0600 (MDT)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304080853080.5973-100000@fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>

looking through the archives to find out whether there is a way to use u9fs
as the file server for a plan9 installation (not enough hardware available
at the moment, vmware notwithstanding) i came upon this message:

	http://www.fywss.com/plan9/info/u9fs

it's dated 1995, so my question is can u9fs still be used as a file server
for a plan9 non-standalone installation?

i can make a machine act as a cpu/auth/kfs server but i really want to
boot diskless cpus...

thanx, andrey

Re: [9fans] u9fs file servers

[andrey mirtchovski]

I have just one machine available to act as a cpu server.. currently it's
set up as a cpu/auth/kfs machine, but I want to get rid of the kfs part,
(move it to another unix machine, on which I am not given permission
to put Plan9 in a non-vmware fashion :)

andrey

On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, David Presotto wrote:

> If you can set up a system to be a cpu/auth/kfs server, why can't
> you boot the diskless machines off of that or am I missing something?

Re: [9fans] u9fs file servers

[nigel]

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u9fs can act as a file server, authenticated by a Plan 9 cpu server, yes.

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From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] u9fs file servers
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 09:04:49 -0600 (MDT)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304080901530.5973-100000@fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>

I have just one machine available to act as a cpu server.. currently it's
set up as a cpu/auth/kfs machine, but I want to get rid of the kfs part,
(move it to another unix machine, on which I am not given permission
to put Plan9 in a non-vmware fashion :)

andrey

On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, David Presotto wrote:

> If you can set up a system to be a cpu/auth/kfs server, why can't
> you boot the diskless machines off of that or am I missing something?

Re: [9fans] u9fs file servers

[Russ Cox]

> it's dated 1995, so my question is can u9fs still be used as a file server
> for a plan9 non-standalone installation?

u9fs can again be used as a file server for a plan9 non-standalone installation.
(for a few years inbetween then and now, it could not).

but see presotto's mail.  using kfs makes more sense.