> getting your root fs over a wide-area network can be quite painful; > you're not moving a ton of data, but the process is very > latency-sensitive. i've not done it in a few years, but boot times of > 5-10 minutes were not unusual. cfs(4) cut it to about a quarter that. > > still, what i ended up doing was booting locally with a termrc that > connected to my file server and pulled in what i wanted. it was a bit > extra effort to maintain, but the time difference was more than > dramatic enough to make it worth it.
The problem seems to be occurring *before* I authenticate myself, though, which means the long delay isn't related to fetching from the fs, right? I don't know much about the Plan 9 boot process, so I could be wrong. John
