Hi, I guess that this must be a FAQ; but I've already spent days googling, reading docs, man pages, etc. and I'm still lost.
Short background: I'm an experienced (11y) Linux sysadmin, but this is the first time I try to delve into Plan9. I want to play with it and to explore it's possibilities in full, so I tried to create a minimal reproduction of the decentratized scheme shown in the original P9 paper. I've installed successfully some terminals, one with fossil+venti (which I expect to use as a file server) and a couple of CPU servers (one following the step-by-step guide, another with a make_cpuauth script that I found later). All of this in separate QEMU instances connected by the VDE virtual networking to the host OS that works as a router to the internet. I think that networking more or less works (after a LOT of sweat), but my main problem is that I don't know how to continue. The documentation doesn't seem to explain how it's supposed that all this fits together, and I couldn't find any docs on how to use fossil+venti as a fileserver (the only page I found was for the old system). I don't understand how the fileserver and the cpu server(s) share authentication data, how do I setup remote booting for terminals and/or the fileserver... All in all, I think that I'm completely blinded to the big picture. Anyone could give me some tips or pointers? Thanks you a lot. -- Martín Ferrari
