Re: [9fans] sharing the ndb(6) database

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> Now, the rest of the network also needs much
> of the same info as the auth server, in order to
> easily call each computer by sysname, etc..
> This means that when a new node is added to
> the Plan 9 network, changes will be needed
> to be made in two places: the main network's
> /lib/ndb/local and the auth server's /lib/ndb/local.
> What's a better way to achieve this? Is there
> some method by which the auth server can share
> its ndb file(s) with the network? Or should it also
> rely on the file server for the root filesystem, and
> use local disks only for keyfs, secstore, etc.
> databases?

since the keyfs and secstore databases are encrypted
on disk, i just boot the auth server from the fs and
leave the secstore and keyfs databases on the fs.

perhaps i'm being a bit blithe, but i don't see any
obvious problems with that.

- erik