From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:01:54 -0700 From: Roman Shaposhnik In-reply-to: <0abd1f1a682770f803df799dbc4742d3@9srv.net> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-id: <1222354914.9930.763.camel@work.sfbay.sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <0abd1f1a682770f803df799dbc4742d3@9srv.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] An announcement and a question Topicbox-Message-UUID: 14c53d16-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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.