From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:18:55 -0700 From: Duke Normandin To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <32b42c7f175f797710c138d2a84f5be3@coraid.com> Message-ID: References: <32b42c7f175f797710c138d2a84f5be3@coraid.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology Topicbox-Message-UUID: 98159402-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, erik quanstrom wrote: > > > The Plan ( server would > > > have to have enough disk space to store its own stuff, plus the > > > workstation's file system? Could get dicey, if you've got a few > > > workstations net-booting, could it not? > > > > It can. The clients all share a single copy of the common files, > > but each user will have his own files on the common server. > > But the full Plan9 installation is quite managable. You can > > do quite a lot with only a few gig. > > i think there's a fundamental misunderstanding here. a plan 9 > file server serves a *common* set of files. so loosely speaking, > storage requirements scale with users, and not with the number > of systems attached. one could boot dozens of cpu servers from > a fs with only 1gb of storage. the distribution takes only 300mb. I see! -- Duke