[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster desktop configuration questions

[Reginald Beardsley]

 Till,

Please, tell me more. I got one of the first Plan 9 floppies at Usenix '95. I'd already read all the papers before the disk became available. Spent time talking to dmr about the enterprise scaling aspects which were never implemented. Far superior to anything in use today at scale.

I ran it off a single 1.44 MB floppy with windowing and all the basic command line stuff and was amazed. This is the first I've heard of 9pfs. I've been very RF electronics focused the last 10+ years and the computer side is pretty badly atrophied. There's a new language every other week and a new "framework" every day. I lost interest as it really hadn't changed. Just the names.

Will 9pfs sit on top of a RAIDZ1 pool?

I built the Z840 in 2021, but was so completely burned out by the time I got the installer to agree to let me have more than one pool on a disk that I never used it until now. I've never lost a battle with a computer, but that experience made me question whether I wanted to face another fight. "A man's got to know his limitations." So I punted for 4 years.

If the old Sun formula still works for my use case that's all I need, but if not VBox will do. Anything that was serious compute would move to Hipster straight away anyway. I think about compute from the math to the wire, so the less complexity the better. When Solaris would not boot from RAIDZ, I used a mirror for rpool with everything else on RAIDZ1 which is the S10_u8 instance.

My understanding of the zone and container stuff is *very* limited. It was not useful in my work environment. As I understand it, containers and zones can implement a discretely managed OS instance much like VM on the IBM 360 series. Is that correct? Not quite at the HW level with multiple completely independent OS instances running like VM, but close.

So what is the purple jargon for what I want to do? A link would be even better. Currently the Z840 is just hosting Firefox and Vbox, so very little to lose if I screw up.

My normal work environment for a long time consisted of twm with a large number of xterms logged in to different systems. Loved my NCD 19 Xterm. At another company I had the same home file system, different binaries as appropriate across 6 different flavors of Unix. All 6 could work in the same directory, though obviously editing on more than one system using NFS would yield variable results. But I could compile on 6 systems from the same source in the same directory at the same time. Bit rough on the server though.

Have Fun
Reg