From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] writing code Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 22:12:26 -0700 From: andrey mirtchovski In-Reply-To: <57be799e06e50bb191c61c752bd1d583@telus.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0c87f228-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 i believe russ meant that on Plan 9 networks laptops are just keyboard/mouse/display interfaces and should never serve as standalone systems. they're meant to connect to a physically secure fs/auth servers, not serve those files themselves. clients, not servers. hence the second-rate citizenship. i move my laptop from home to school every day. it serves as a terminal to plan9.ucalgary.ca and the only plan9-related things it has are a couple of partitions -- 9fat and cfs (cache). none of my files are stored on it (except whatever is in cfs). it's as secure as anything else.