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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] floppy based standalone auth server
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In-Reply-To: <850f05e346d014be5db03a148993b4bd@orthanc.cc.titech.ac.jp>; from YAMANASHI Takeshi on Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 05:05:16PM +0900
Date: Mon,  2 Dec 2002 10:33:26 +0200
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On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 05:05:16PM +0900, YAMANASHI Takeshi wrote:
>
> I use two floppies for the auth serv.
> One for kernel, and the other for fs.

In two floppy drives, I presume.  Pity that 2.88M floppies never
became common.  But then we'd find ways to exceed their capacity :-)

> Both are DOS formatted floppies.
> Attached at the end of this mail is
> the output of `du -a' of the fs floppy.
>
Thank you.  I think I'll post a "proto" file to the wiki, this has
bugged me for a long time.

> It seems that dossrv is serving as an cache mechanism.
>
Hm, interesting.  I never considered that, but there are lots of
little things in Plan 9 that keep surprising me.

> 	1	./plan9.nvr
> 	79	./386/init
> 	124	./386/bin/rc
> 	29	./386/bin/cat
> 	46	./386/bin/echo
> 	61	./386/bin/ls
> 	51	./386/bin/ps
> 	36	./386/bin/date
> 	86	./386/bin/ip/ipconfig
> 	86	./386/bin/ip

I think you'll get away without ip and ip/ipconfig as /ipconfig should
be built into the kernel. /rc/bin/cpurc will need to be adjusted.

> 	122	./386/bin/ndb/cs
> 	122	./386/bin/ndb
> 	95	./386/bin/aux/listen
> 	95	./386/bin/aux
> 	94	./386/bin/auth/keyfs
> 	85	./386/bin/auth/changeuser
> 	126	./386/bin/auth/auth.srv
> 	305	./386/bin/auth
> 	955	./386/bin
> 	1034	./386
> 	1	./adm/timezone/local
> 	1	./adm/timezone
> 	1	./adm/keys
> 	1	./adm/keys.who
> 	3	./adm
> 	0	./bin
> 	1	./rc/bin/cpurc (*)

Did you forget some comments here?

> 	0	./rc/bin/service
> 	1	./rc/bin/service.auth/il565
> 	1	./rc/bin/service.auth/il566
> 	1	./rc/bin/service.auth/tcp567
> 	3	./rc/bin/service.auth
> 	4	./rc/bin
> 	1	./rc/lib/rcmain
> 	1	./rc/lib
> 	5	./rc
> 	1	./lib/namespace
> 	1	./lib/ndb/local

+ /lib/ndb/common - I think that appeared in 3ed, but maybe you don't
need it.

> 	1	./lib/ndb/auth
> 	2	./lib/ndb
> 	3	./lib
> 	0	./mnt/keys/nashi
> 	0	./mnt/keys
> 	0	./mnt
> 	1046	.
>
Sounds excellent, I must give it a try.

++L