From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: presotto@closedmind.org
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] identity/ownership
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Date: Wed,  7 Nov 2001 09:22:53 -0500
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On Wed Nov  7 00:28:21 EST 2001, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:
> ... I presume
> at Bell Labs it is conventional for all CPU servers to have the same
> owner?  I set up the second CPU server specifically for Inferno, so
> that caused me to have a requirement for two hostids.

At the labs, within an authentication domain, they use the same owner
on all file systems and cpu servers, there's not much reason to do
differently.

It also makes restarting when some disaster happens a little more
robust.  If a cpu server has the same owner/key as the file server
then, should there be no auth server running, it can craft its own
ticket to authenticate the attach.  There's a hack in the code to
do that.  That way, all the cpu servers can also be diskless.