From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: David Presotto To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] u9fs file servers In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-hieeoiiuhithyxhkajjfoeeaaa" Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 10:58:50 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8c4a2382-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-hieeoiiuhithyxhkajjfoeeaaa Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit If you can set up a system to be a cpu/auth/kfs server, why can't you boot the diskless machines off of that or am I missing something? --upas-hieeoiiuhithyxhkajjfoeeaaa Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from plan9.cs.bell-labs.com ([135.104.9.2]) by plan9; Tue Apr 8 10:57:23 EDT 2003 Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by plan9; Tue Apr 8 10:57:21 EDT 2003 Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.30.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 5DF5619ADE; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 10:57:07 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: from fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca [136.159.7.68]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 9CB3D19980 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 10:56:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h38EudY3006030 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 08:56:39 -0600 Received: from localhost (mirtchov@localhost) by fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id h38Eucrm006026 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 08:56:38 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca: mirtchov owned process doing -bs From: andrey mirtchovski To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: [9fans] u9fs file servers Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 08:56:38 -0600 (MDT) looking through the archives to find out whether there is a way to use u9fs as the file server for a plan9 installation (not enough hardware available at the moment, vmware notwithstanding) i came upon this message: http://www.fywss.com/plan9/info/u9fs it's dated 1995, so my question is can u9fs still be used as a file server for a plan9 non-standalone installation? i can make a machine act as a cpu/auth/kfs server but i really want to boot diskless cpus... thanx, andrey --upas-hieeoiiuhithyxhkajjfoeeaaa--