From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1233960107.6196.54.camel@goose.sun.com> Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 23:57:21 +0100 Message-ID: <5d375e920902071457q34f69810rbdf6771613f9f824@mail.gmail.com> From: Uriel To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] FileServer grid Topicbox-Message-UUID: 997d8afe-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 The link is *not* broken, plan9.bell-labs.com is, sadly and unsurprisingly, broken. uriel On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Giacomo Tesio wrote: > I'd like to move our softwares to Linux + Apache (where mounting a 9p > fileserver would be easy), but actually it's a Windows + IIS. > > I would write a session state service for ASP.NET connecting it in 9p (using > c# and the 9pc implementation linked by > http://9p.cat-v.org/implementations... actually the link is broken...) > > If the filesystem grid work as I've understood, there would be only ONE > filesystem. > > So, saving session state in the grid would make it available to all web > servers connected to the filesystem, allowing load balance and high > availability for the web servers (when one crash, the user sessions it was > handling would be available to the others web server). > > But what if a node of the grid goes down? There would be a way to keep files > in it replicated in other cpu node? > > > Giacomo > > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Roman V. Shaposhnik wrote: >> >> On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 23:26 +0100, Giacomo Tesio wrote: >> > Hello every one... >> > In a context of really heavy load and high availability needs, I'm >> > evaluating plan 9 to implement a fileserver grid to be used by a web >> > server for temporary storage (session's serializations, for example). >> >> What OS do you web servers run under? >> >> > I'd like to build a Plan 9 grid exposing a unique filesystem mounted >> > by all the web servers. >> >> Are you going to talk to this filesystem using 9P or something else? >> >> > Each session could be accessible from any web server instantly, but >> > what if a fileserver in the grid break? >> > Is there a way to mantain such a session (actually the file storing >> > the session data) available by keeping it sincronized beetween the >> > Plan 9 fileservers? >> >> This is unclear. Please restate. >> >> Thanks, >> Roman. >> >> > >