> > 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. - erik
