Re: [9front] Two file servers sharing an auth server

[william@thinktankworkspaces.com]

Very interesting. I would like to hear your progress, mybe through up a page. I have thought many times to expand my network but I'm a bit cheap and the webserver seems to be doing just fine. But I might be interested in isolating werc on another node. 

Quoth Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net>:
> i agree with all you say about cfs, however… 
> 
> beware, in my experience cfs is a real win where your bandwidth to the server is low.
> 
>  it is less helpful where the latency to the server is high (as cfs checks the file version number on every access).
> 
> -Steve
> 
> > On 3 Nov 2022, at 10:35, sirjofri <sirjofri+ml-9front@sirjofri.de> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 03.11.2022 10:30:27 Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net>:
> >> having the web server boot diskless is very nice, if its content is small that is enough.
> >> 
> >> for a little extra performance you can copy the web content to a ramfs at boot.
> >> 
> >> if the content is big you could mount a local spinning/ssd at boot onto /usr/web and serve that, but having a diskless web and cpu servers makes things very clean and easy to maintain.
> > 
> > Not to mention there's also cfs which can be nice for bigger stuff. Afaik it works by caching all accessed files on a local disk (except they're changed on the server) and all writes go to the server directly.
> > 
> > sirjofri
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