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07-04-2014 S.LB.S Engineering College

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What is plan 9?

More realistically, a distributed operating system .

Designed by the creators of C, UNIX,AWK, UTF-8,TROFF etc.

Widely acknowledged as UNIXs true successor .

Distributed under terms of the Lucent Public License, which

appears on the OSIs list of approved licenses, also considered

free software by the FSF .

Uniform interface to all resources .

No files are more special than others .


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What are Design Considerations ?

Openness

Security

Scalability

Failure handling

Transparency


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Plan 9 was named after the worst movie ever made in the

history of American Film .

Bell Labs began development in late 1980

s 4 Releases

Last Release was April of 2002

Updated June 2003


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Paradigm shift in mid 1980s

From: Large centralized timeshared computers

To: Networks of smaller personal machines

Typically UNIX

workstations

Plan 9 wanted it both ways

Central Administration

Cost effective


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Build a time sharing system out of workstations

Build a UNIX out of a lot of little systems, not out of a lot of

little UNIXs

Specialization of hardware Different computers for different tasks

Small cheap machines in peoples offices

Terminals providing access to shared resources

File servers, computing servers File Servers and CPU Servers in Server Room


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Centralized Time shared Systems

Personal Workstation Systems

CPU ServersFile Servers

High Speed

Network

Centrally located multiprocessor machines with large memories

and high bandwidth point to point interconnects.

Terminal

Medium Speed Network

Plan 9 Distributed Operating System

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Setup and use a working plan9 research environment

Implement and measure fitness of several Bioinformatics

algorithms when implemented in a distributed manner

Measure performance and compare to other (more robust)operating systems (BSD or Linux)

Compare ease of use and application development with other

OSs


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Plan 9:

Plan 9 is the name of the Distributed Operating Systemdesigned and implemented by researchers at Bell Lab inMurray Hill New Jersey.

9Grid: 9Grid is the name of a Plan 9 installation that provides Grid

Style Computing.

8:

The Plan 9 window system. It provides textual I/O andbitmap graphic services to both local and remote clientprograms by offering a multiplexed file service to thoseclients


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Rc:

Rc is a command interpreter for Plan 9 that providessimilar facilities to UNIXs Bourne shell, with some smalladditions and less idiosyncratic syntax .

IL Protocol:

IL is a custom implemented network protocol to transportthe remote procedure call messages 9P. It is a connection-

based, lightweight transport protocol that carriesdatagrams encapsulated by IP. IL provides retransmissionof lost messages and in-sequence delivery, but has no flowcontrol and no blind retransmission .


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Built upon 3 principles.

1. Resources as files

Named and accessed like files in a hierarchical file

system.

2. Standard protocol

9P, for accessing these resources.

3. Hierarchical file name space

The disjoint hierarchies provided by different servicesare joined together into a single private hierarchical

file name space.


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Resources as files

All resources in Plan 9 look like file systems.

File Oriented access

Hierarchical name tree

Accessible by name

Access contents by read and write calls


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One protocol to bind them all

9P is Plan 9s VFS

13 basic operations including read, write, stat et. al.

All resources are required to implement them Minimalist and Lightweight, can work over any reliable

transport:TCP, Shared Memory, Serial Ports, PCI Bus etc.

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Hierarchical File namespace

Every resource in the system,

local or remote

User or process assembles a private view of the systemby constructing a file name space that connects the

resources.

Allows the user to access files that are local or remote in

the same manner. When writing a program the user

does not need to create code that handles for cases in

which the file is not local. Those details are abstracted

to the system.


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Main Parts

File servers

CPU servers

Terminals (user access points).

Unlike what you may expect, a file server in Plan 9 is justsomething that serves resources in the form of files

Hence, the kernel is often called a server multiplexer, not anI/O multiplexer like UNIX was

Thanks to 9P, it doesnt matter whether resources are local orremote, applications use them transparently without evenknowing


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Example: Echo Server

This Code implements a typical TCP listener.

It announces itself

listens for connections, and forks a new process for each.

The new process echoes data on the connection until theremote end closes it.

The "*" in the symbolic name means the announcement is valid

for any addresses bound to the machine the program is run on


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Example: Echo Server

1.Announce()

2.Listen()

3.Accept() || Reject()

4.Process().

5.Close()


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There is no root user

Everyone has the same privileges (i.e. nothing)

Namespaces provide isolation by default

The file-server has a sys group, add yourself to it if you want

to, for example, install a new kernel for everyone to use

Each box is a (typically) separate machine;

Ellipse is a process.

The authentication server is one of several repositories

for users security information that factotum processesconsult as required. Sec store is a shared resource for storing private

information such as keys; factotum consults it for theuser during bootstrap


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Native UTF-8 UTF-8 was invented by Ken Thomson and

Rob Pikefor Plan 9

All text in Plan 9 is UTF-8 (which is why it is

backward-compatible with ASCII) Internationalization was

added to Linux as

an afterthought

This is especially relevant in countries like India


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Rio

Plan 9s Window Manager

A window in Rio is a real window, not a terminal

emulator because we dont use terminal anymore

Everything is just text - cut / copy / paste at will! And yes, you need a (3-button) mouse :)


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Acme

The programmers editor

Again, all text is editable

Can also be used as a file manager No, theres no syntax coloring (yet!)


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Compiler Suite

One compiler and linker per architecture

(MC68000/020,ARM,Alpha, x86,AMD64, SPARC, SPARC64,

PowerPC, MIPS and more on the way)

A new Makefile style system for maintaining code - mk

Very fast - No dynamic libraries Robust debugging system acid


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Fossil and Venti

Venti - block storage indexed by hash; duplicated blocks

stored only once

Fossil: Uses Venti for storing snapshots of files

Try the history and yesterday commands

Mac OS X comes up with this idea for Leopard in 2007, was in

Plan 9 since before I was born!


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Factotum

Much like a keyring, does authentication on your behalf

Speaks a variety of protocols

All your keys are stored in secstore encrypted in a masterkey


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What Plan 9 does not have?

root, suid, tty, curses

ioctl, sockets, select, poll, symlinks pthreads,

mmap

localesgcc, C++, emacs, vi

X11, XML,Web 2.0

... and thats a good thing (TM)


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Good video players

A 3D graphics system Eye-candy

JavaScript-enabled web browser .


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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

These instructions are for a x86 based PC. See the SupportedPC hardwarepage.

Find an x86-based PC with:

>32MB of RAM These are requirements for the installation procedure. A

machine with 16MB of memory and no free disk space at allwill work fine as a terminal net-booted but won't be able torun the installer.

If you wish to install from local media, you need a FAT filesystem or a CD-ROM drive. If you wish to install over theinternet, you need a supported Ethernet card or a PPP dial-upaccount using a modem.

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