From: Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] An announcement and a question
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:01:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1222354914.9930.763.camel@work.sfbay.sun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0abd1f1a682770f803df799dbc4742d3@9srv.net>
On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 19:09 -0400, a@9srv.net wrote:
> // ...is there a piece of software already available
> // that would act like an adapter between NFS
> // clients and 9P servers...
>
> nfsserver(8) might work for you: it'll grab a 9p server
> and export it over nfs, allowing clients with no "special"
> software to mount it. it used to do auth, but it was a
> hack (as all nfs auth must be), so was removed; now it
> just treats everyone as none, if i remember right.
Perfect! That sounds like exactly the right place for me
to start looking. And thanks for setting me straight: somehow
I have always thought that nfsserver(8) was implemented
using open/read/write/etc. but now I see that it really
does generate 9P messages.
Thanks,
Roman.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-25 15:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-24 22:34 Roman Shaposhnik
2008-09-24 23:09 ` a
2008-09-25 15:01 ` Roman Shaposhnik [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1222354914.9930.763.camel@work.sfbay.sun.com \
--to=rvs@sun.com \
--cc=9fans@9fans.net \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).