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From: Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Do we have a catalog of 9P servers?
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On Nov 11, 2008, at 6:11 PM, sqweek wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:54 AM, Eric Van Hensbergen
> <ericvh@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have two measurements of success:
>> a) what keeps me working on Plan 9 related technologies in a paid
>> position
>> b) what switches people from using NFS, GPFS, or other horribly
>> complicated solutions to something closer to Plan 9
>
> Fair enough. Does .L still qualify as "closer to Plan 9", or is it
> NFS by any other name?

NFS (especially NFS4) seems to be exactly the POSIX-oriented 9P.
Except one thing: they worry too much about caching and that
show in various places in the protocol. NFS3 is also stateless.

Now, since it looks like I may be stuck implementing poor-mans-NFS
for Solaris via a user-space NFS daemon I sleuthed around and
discovered (quite to my embarrassment as a Sun employee) that
we had WebNFS once. Which was, if you ask me, as close to
POSIX-oriented 9P (at least the way it is shaping up right now)
as one can get.

Thanks,
Roman.