From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <82c890d00709130733q7ef569f6p84117de000f86c0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:33:57 +0200 From: "Gabriel Diaz" To: weigelt@metux.de, "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Server management In-Reply-To: <20070913141141.GA11706@nibiru.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070913141141.GA11706@nibiru.local> Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: becf5f82-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 hello i think resfs (andrey mirtchovsky) and srvfs are just flavours of what you are thinking, take a look, may be those inspires you. Also the plan9 volfs (nemo) could have some ideas. i think the plan9 way would be something like 9p://server/service_list_fs and then clicking on them would bring you to that service via a 9p url. . .:-? i suppose this is just 1 cent. :) slds. gabi On 9/13/07, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > while thinking about my plans for using 9P servers in numerious > situations I just realized that server management can become > quite complex. > > For example if an application like mozilla would move out many > jobs (ie. like currently discussing @ mozilla.org: rss-feeds), > server management can be quite complicated. We can't expect > neither the user nor the individual application to be responsible > for that. We need some zero-configuration approach. > > Actually it can be done by another server, which knows about > all the individual servers, handles startup/shutdown and tells > the clients where to find them, how to authenticate, etc, etc. > A little bit like RPC portmap. > > What do you think about this idea ? > > > cu > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: > http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce > Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: > http://patches.metux.de/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >