From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:11:41 +0200 From: Enrico Weigelt To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Message-ID: <20070913141141.GA11706@nibiru.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: [9fans] Server management Topicbox-Message-UUID: becb7016-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hi folks, while thinking about my plans for using 9P servers in numerious situations I just realized that server management can become quite complex. For example if an application like mozilla would move out many jobs (ie. like currently discussing @ mozilla.org: rss-feeds), server management can be quite complicated. We can't expect neither the user nor the individual application to be responsible for that. We need some zero-configuration approach. Actually it can be done by another server, which knows about all the individual servers, handles startup/shutdown and tells the clients where to find them, how to authenticate, etc, etc. A little bit like RPC portmap. What do you think about this idea ? cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------