Anyone had any experience running the RaspberryPi Plan9? It seems like the ideal way to set up a small cluster using some cheap RaspberryPi Zeros as compute, maybe one for file storage and another as a terminal.
The Plan9 raspberry pi is probably the easiest way to get Plan 9 up and running, but not very powerful. The default image only has a 2gb partition. If you're interested in venti, it's a difficult process that needs to be manually set up (vs the ISO installer where it just asks you if you want to install fossil or fossil+venti) It makes a great introduction to Plan 9, and would probably make a great terminal for an existing Plan 9 cluster, but I wouldn't try making a cluster of them.
I use mine as a login server (and something to drawterm into when I want to play around with Plan 9 without booting up a VM), which is a great use case for it. I initially wanted to use it for Go development, but:
1. I had to start by writing a git client, which I never finished enough to be useable.
2. plan9/arm is only in Go tip (and will be in 1.7)
Interesting stuff. I was always intrigued by Plan9 (via Go). The same thought had crossed my mind too, that Plan9 may be a great dev environment for Go; apparently the 9p package is excellent.
