From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:02:25 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <32b42c7f175f797710c138d2a84f5be3@coraid.com> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology Topicbox-Message-UUID: 977d1240-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > > The Plan ( server would > > have to have enough disk space to store its own stuff, plus the > > workstation's file system? Could get dicey, if you've got a few > > workstations net-booting, could it not? > > It can. The clients all share a single copy of the common files, > but each user will have his own files on the common server. > But the full Plan9 installation is quite managable. You can > do quite a lot with only a few gig. i think there's a fundamental misunderstanding here. a plan 9 file server serves a *common* set of files. so loosely speaking, storage requirements scale with users, and not with the number of systems attached. one could boot dozens of cpu servers from a fs with only 1gb of storage. the distribution takes only 300mb. - erik