From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 18939 invoked from network); 4 Nov 2022 00:03:52 -0000 Received: from 9front.inri.net (168.235.81.73) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 4 Nov 2022 00:03:52 -0000 Received: from maat.thinktankworkspaces.com ([45.79.94.76]) by 9front; Thu Nov 3 20:01:00 -0400 2022 Message-ID: To: 9front@9front.org Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2022 17:00:57 -0700 From: william@thinktankworkspaces.com In-Reply-To: <5498E822-9183-434D-A333-C1D0C9DD890C@quintile.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit List-ID: <9front.9front.org> List-Help: X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: ISO-certified realtime cache XML over HTTP property-based CMS frontend Subject: Re: [9front] Two file servers sharing an auth server Reply-To: 9front@9front.org Precedence: bulk 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 : > 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 wrote: > > > >  > > 03.11.2022 10:30:27 Steve Simon : > >> 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 >