From: miller@hamnavoe.demon.co.uk
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] cpu/file/terminal server of my dream
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:56:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E137KBW-000NKi-0C@finch-post-12.mail.demon.net> (raw)
Wladimir Mutel <mwg@alkar.net> writes:
Please explain what could I loss if I set up central file server on
existing unix by u9fs ? I do not have spare machine to deploy
full-blown fs(8) there. But, suppose, I do not need its backup
facility and some other extended features. Can u9fs satisfy me then ?
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. Also u9fs does not use Plan 9 authentication, but only the
(joke) .rhosts file. So you would be leaving your Unix file system pretty
wide open.
To say, is there any cpu-server emulator for unixes ?
It might be a great thing for deploying or migration to Plan9.
Perhaps you should look at Inferno, which does run as an emulator on top
of other operating systems. See http://www.vitanuova.com for info.
-- Richard Miller
next reply other threads:[~2000-06-28 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-06-28 15:56 miller [this message]
2000-06-28 16:13 ` Steve Kotsopoulos
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2000-06-29 17:50 presotto
2000-06-28 18:40 rsc
2000-06-28 17:34 miller
2000-06-29 16:49 ` Wladimir Mutel
2000-06-27 9:39 miller
2000-06-27 12:30 ` Wladimir Mutel
2000-06-26 9:01 Wladimir Mutel
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