Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

[Duke Normandin <dukeofperl@ml1.net>]

>On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Brian L. Stuart wrote:

[snip]

> It has become a little confusing over the last 20 years.  In a way
> too brief way, here are the basic incarnations of Plan9:

>
> - Natively running the current Plan9 kernel
>    - Stand-alone terminal with its own fs
>    - Terminal (possibly diskless) talking to an external fs
>    - CPU, auth, or file server (or some combination)
>
>    All of these are running Plan9 as their "bare metal" OS
>
> - Same as above but in a virtual machine, such as virtualbox,
>   vmware, qemu, etc.
> - Ken's FS: a file server that runs on bare hardware
> - 9vx: a port of the Plan9 kernel to vx32 that allows a full Plan9
>   system to run as a user-level application on another system,
>   including Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OSX
> - drawterm: an earlier port of a limited Plan9 kernel that's similar
>   to a terminal connecting to a remote CPU server
> - P9P (aka Plan9 ports, Plan9 from user space): a port of the Plan9
>   user apps to POSIX-like systems
>
> And just for fun these can all play together.  At the moment, I'm
> using a MacOS machine that has one file system mounted using the P9P
> 9pfuse program.  It's also running an instance of virtualbox that's
> net booted a Plan9 terminal.  There's also an instance of 9vx
> running which is accessing the file system mounted via P9P.  All of
> these pieces are talking to a Plan9 CPU server which in turn uses a
> Ken FS file server.

I *know* that I'm going to get myself into trouble, hanging around a
bunch of Plan 9 hackers - like you seem to be :) My wife just made me
get rid of a bunch of P-IIIs that would have been great for this new
venture. Shoot!!  (that's  sh#t with 2 Os )

[snip]

> > I just checked - it's a 166Mhz P-I with 98M RAM and 4.5G HDD. Made
> > a good dedicated mail server. May not have enough gonads for a
> > Plan 9 server though.  >
>
> I wouldn't dismiss it entirely.  My old Plan9 CPU/auth/file server
> at home had a very similar configuration.

Then I'll have to give it a shot. Then go looking for some more recent
hardware! Here we go again ... :D
--
Duke