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From: Akshat Kumar <akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] is there a distributed filesystem
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:23:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABwSpPD7iK2BXTR8tN3MY6qKRUD3tctUXw7xen_LeP=N4s_AHA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEAzY39EJbddnnQ-MGEsO3ALJFvQhNu5KNN=nGV_S_9V0FTStw@mail.gmail.com>

>> is there a distributed filesystem from plan 9 that i could compile under p9p
>> and use on linux?
>>
>> the problem at hand: i want a hot spare  DHCP server at my LAN; i'm currently
>> using dnsmasq. to achieve synchronization of leases i need to synchronize at
>> least one file between two servers. preferably a bunch of files -- both configs
>> and lease state.

Will srv(4)'ing the appropriate namespace from Plan 9 and
mounting it under p9p (or possibly vice versa, depending)
not work for you?

> It's not from Plan 9, but you could use Doozer, it was designed for
> exactly this kind of thing: https://github.com/ha/doozerd . It's
> basically Google Chubby for mortals. It's written in Go and it's
> zero-config.

Christ, what a name. Yeah, I bet Google's got a Chubby
for locks. Many, many locks.


ak



      reply	other threads:[~2012-01-21  3:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-20 14:54 dexen deVries
2012-01-20 15:07 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2012-01-21  3:23   ` Akshat Kumar [this message]

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