From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 16:49:51 +0000 From: Wladimir Mutel Message-ID: <8jftn8$2sdl$1@pandora.alkar.net> References: Subject: Re: [9fans] cpu/file/terminal server of my dream Topicbox-Message-UUID: ce958f36-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 miller@hamnavoe.demon.co.uk wrote: >> u9fs will not work as root file system for diskless clients without some >> changes to the kernel. Since u9fs serves via tcp not il protocol, you would >> have to interpose something like aux/fcall to reconstruct 9p message >> boundaries. >> is this something new with the 3rd edition? >> under 2nd edition I'm using a u9fs fileserver just fine > Yes, the old Plan 9 had fcall(3) stream module within the kernel which > the boot process pushed onto a tcp connection. This is gone, along > with all kernel stream stuff. So, how can we now practically set up a central fs(8) (and preferably cpu and auth server there too) ? -- mwg@alkar.net