"James A. Robinson" <jim.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: >Folks, > >For a multi-machine network of Plan 9 services, would it be >normal to have an authsrv machine that only runs that service, >and uses a standalone local filesystem, and then have a separate >server running dns+dhcp+tftp to PXE boot client machines. The >latter would be backed by a 3rd machine that is the fileserver. > >I'm trying to figure out the optimal way to maintain the systems >without duplicating work, and run now an auth+dns+dhcp+tftp >server appears to require maintenance of two separate filesystems >to manage the /lib/ndb/* and kernel files. > > >Jim
The idea is that there is one file system shared by all the neighboring systems. The canonical Plan 9 installation comprises one disk file server and many diskless computing machines (auth servers, cpu servers, terminals). sl
