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From: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.64.0907110843190.5249@malasada.lava.net>
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Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:50:44 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] v9fs question
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Hmmm, that's really new behavior-- never used to fail without mount
helper.  Can you give the exact error message?


Patches to documentation and/or code gladly accepted.
Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 11, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net> wrote:

> The documentation in the linux kernel says you merely
>
>   mount -t 9p ipaddress /mntpoint
>
> this fails on my system since /sbin/mount tries to execute /sbin/
> mount.9p and fails.  Am I supposed to have an /sbin/mount.9p?
> (Anyone know which ubunutu package should have this?  If not, where
> I might find sources? Ironic since Ubuntu came with the 9p kernel
> module)  Or should I be using a different mount program for the
> purpose?
>
> The linux Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt should probably be
> updated with more details, either way.
>
> Tim Newsham
> http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/
>