From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: From: Skip Tavakkolian Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2018 10:47:42 -0700 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0000000000004639780574e7064d" Subject: Re: [9fans] 9P or better file services for multiple platforms Topicbox-Message-UUID: e031bbe6-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --0000000000004639780574e7064d Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Have you considered using AoE (Coraid)? It would require dedicated fossil, NFS CIFS servers, but they'd all be sharing the storage -- Coraid supports ext4 and NTFS. Most servers have multiple NICs, which makes a dedicated LAN for AoE traffic easy. Regarding authentication and access control, I think the only *standard* option for a mixed OS environment (Plan 9, Linux/*BSD, Windows) is Kerberos. It would be great if factotum could handle Kerberos 5. There is a pure Go package (https://github.com/jcmturner/gokrb5) that could help. Of course, this would take some work. This setup would require 4 (or potentially only 3) machines: * AoE block storage * the KDC (MIT, Heimdal, or MS Active Directory) * Plan 9 file server (fossil, but also CIFS and NFS servers) * Linux or NetBSD file server for CIFS and NFS -Skip On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 10:22 PM Lucio De Re wrote: > > > My hope is to provide a central file server that fulfills reliable > file services to both Plan 9 and Linux as seamlessly as possible. I am > willing to sacrifice a few Unix features, such as file links, in that > file server, if I can dedicate it to a narrower role than to support > the full Linux environment. In Plan 9 parlance, I only need file > services, not computing capabilities and the file server is allowed to > limit some of the computing needs involved (like, say, graphics, any > multimedia stuff, even mouse use). > > The question, then, is what file service will satisfy these needs, > including access control, automatic backup as provided by default > under Plan 9, etc. I am not very fond of Linux's propensity to need > daily upgrades, but Plan 9 has quirks of its own, which I would be > hard pressed to enumerate here, but we are all aware of. > > Lucio. > > --0000000000004639780574e7064d Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Have you considered using AoE (Coraid)? It would require d= edicated fossil, NFS CIFS servers, but they'd all be sharing the storag= e -- Coraid supports ext4 and NTFS. Most servers have multiple NICs, which = makes a dedicated LAN for AoE traffic easy.

Regarding au= thentication and access control, I think the only *standard* option for a m= ixed OS environment (Plan 9, Linux/*BSD, Windows) is Kerberos.
It would be great if factotum could handle Kerberos 5. There i= s a pure Go package (https:= //github.com/jcmturner/gokrb5) that could help. Of course, this would t= ake some work.

This setup would require 4 (or pote= ntially only 3) machines:
=C2=A0 * AoE block storage
= =C2=A0 * the KDC (MIT, Heimdal, or MS Active Directory)
=C2=A0 * = Plan 9 file server (fossil, but also CIFS and NFS servers)
=C2=A0= * Linux or NetBSD file server for CIFS and NFS

-S= kip

On Fri, Aug 3= 1, 2018 at 10:22 PM Lucio De Re <lucio.dere@gmail.com> wrote: