From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7d3530220608210713uf00b0f0udb7326f65f5dc809@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:13:32 -0700 From: "John Floren" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] grid setup procedure In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7d3530220608201049u308d4cd5i975e2542726a2aeb@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: a4e32988-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 8/20/06, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > On 8/20/06, John Floren wrote: > > Hello again. > > I've been looking for information on setting up a Plan 9 grid, but > > I've been having some trouble. First off, I should clarify--a grid is > > the name for a collection of machines including a cpu server, auth > > server, file server, and some terminals, right? I'd like to know the > > general order you use when setting up such a grid. > > It sounds like the first thing to do is set up a standalone > > cpu/auth/file server. Good. Now, after setting up that server, does a > > dedicated file server come next? Or an auth server? Has anyone else > > kept notes while setting up one of these? > > Thanks > > > > Some combination of cpu/auth/file servers isn't really a grid -- its > just a standard Plan 9 clusters. As for how to proceed once you have > your standalone cpu/auth/file server -- that all depends on what you > want to do. Some folks have setup cpu servers that others could log > into (via drawterm or from their Plan 9 terminals). Other's have > setup mirrors of sources and other Plan 9 network file resources. > There were various notes on the Wiki, but not sure if they survived > the cleansing. > > -eric > Okay, I guess I got confused when everybody kept talking about 9grids. If I wanted to make a setup similar to 9grid.de, for instance, or any other site that has machines dedicated to file serving or auth or cpu, do I install a file server after doing my standalone server, then have the standalone boot from the file server? I suppose the thing to do is email some of the people who have done this. John -- "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" -- Shakespeare, Henry VI