From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 09:58:39 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <5fc5799299c49239de30d55eb64e02b5@ladd.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] sharing the ndb(6) database Topicbox-Message-UUID: 51517130-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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