From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: miller@hamnavoe.demon.co.uk To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:56:00 +0100 Subject: Re: [9fans] cpu/file/terminal server of my dream Message-Id: Topicbox-Message-UUID: cc99c9ea-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Wladimir Mutel 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