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From: Stanley Lieber <sl@9front.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 13:47:23 -0500
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>,
	"James A. Robinson" <jim.robinson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Maintenance of an auth server files vs a
	dns+dhcp+tftp	server
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"James A. Robinson" <jim.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:

>Folks,
>
>For a multi-machine network of Plan 9 services, would it be
>normal to have an authsrv machine that only runs that service,
>and uses a standalone local filesystem, and then have a separate
>server running dns+dhcp+tftp to PXE boot client machines.  The
>latter would be backed by a 3rd machine that is the fileserver.
>
>I'm trying to figure out the optimal way to maintain the systems
>without duplicating work, and run now an auth+dns+dhcp+tftp
>server appears to require maintenance of two separate filesystems
>to manage the /lib/ndb/* and kernel files.
>
>
>Jim

The idea is that there is one file system shared by all the neighboring s=
ystems. The canonical Plan 9 installation comprises one disk file server =
and many diskless computing machines (auth servers, cpu servers, terminal=
s).

sl