On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, erik quanstrom wrote:

> > > The Plan ( server would
> > > have to have enough disk space to store its own stuff, plus the
> > > workstation's file system? Could get dicey, if you've got a few
> > > workstations net-booting, could it not?
> >
> > It can.  The clients all share a single copy of the common files,
> > but each user will have his own files on the common server.
> > But the full Plan9 installation is quite managable.  You can
> > do quite a lot with only a few gig.
>
> i think there's a fundamental misunderstanding here.  a plan 9
> file server serves a *common* set of files.  so loosely speaking,
> storage requirements scale with users, and not with the number
> of systems attached.  one could boot dozens of cpu servers from
> a fs with only 1gb of storage. the distribution takes only 300mb.

I see!

-- 
Duke

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