Have you considered using AoE (Coraid)? It would require dedicated fossil, NFS CIFS servers, but they'd all be sharing the storage -- Coraid supports ext4 and NTFS. Most servers have multiple NICs, which makes a dedicated LAN for AoE traffic easy.
Regarding authentication and access control, I think the only *standard* option for a mixed OS environment (Plan 9, Linux/*BSD, Windows) is Kerberos. It would be great if factotum could handle Kerberos 5. There is a pure Go package (https://github.com/jcmturner/gokrb5) that could help. Of course, this would take some work. This setup would require 4 (or potentially only 3) machines: * AoE block storage * the KDC (MIT, Heimdal, or MS Active Directory) * Plan 9 file server (fossil, but also CIFS and NFS servers) * Linux or NetBSD file server for CIFS and NFS -Skip On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 10:22 PM Lucio De Re <lucio.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > My hope is to provide a central file server that fulfills reliable > file services to both Plan 9 and Linux as seamlessly as possible. I am > willing to sacrifice a few Unix features, such as file links, in that > file server, if I can dedicate it to a narrower role than to support > the full Linux environment. In Plan 9 parlance, I only need file > services, not computing capabilities and the file server is allowed to > limit some of the computing needs involved (like, say, graphics, any > multimedia stuff, even mouse use). > > The question, then, is what file service will satisfy these needs, > including access control, automatic backup as provided by default > under Plan 9, etc. I am not very fond of Linux's propensity to need > daily upgrades, but Plan 9 has quirks of its own, which I would be > hard pressed to enumerate here, but we are all aware of. > > Lucio. > >
