Re: [9fans] fs/cpu/auth administration questions (man page fix) (vgadb add)

Re: [9fans] fs/cpu/auth administration questions (man page fix) (vgadb add)

[nemo]

Regarding the fall-back fs, I'd suggest you to make a copy of the files in your
real fs using another machine. I do that, and that's how I did a recover when
my fs crashed seriously due to a failing power source .


 

[9fans] fs/cpu/auth administration questions (man page fix) (vgadb add)

[Axel Belinfante]

vgadb string:
	0xC0043="Stealth 3D 3000 Vers. 1.00"
to be inserted next to all the other Stealth 3D 3000 ones.


Just a couple of questions wrt administration/configuration...

In principle I want to have all machines get their filesystem off the fs.
However, the cpu/auth server has a local disk that I basically don't want
to use (I already forgot once to 'disk/kfscmd halt' before turning off the
machine, and still have to clean up the result), but I do want to have
a filesystem there as fall-back to boot from, e.g. in case of serious
problems with the fs. The manual suggests that update(8) is the thing I
need to keep the 'local' filesystem in sync, correct?

Note: update(8) manpage says that it will use proto file 386proto;
however, /rc/bin/pc/update uses portproto.

Are there any places in which I could want to customize the portproto file?
(anyway, local customization of it can be best done by adding a new proto
 file, rather than editing the existing ones, right?)


Related question: my cpu/auth server is slow (pentium 150MHz) and has only
32M ram (currently). The fs is on a different subnet (but is still nearby).
Does it make sense to use cfs, or would that only clobber resources?


Wrt the fs: is there/what is the difference between sntp and ntp
(as used by timesync)? Can I just use the same ntp server that I
use from the cpu server?


Axel. (who though he had more questions, but cannot think of them now)