Re: [9fans] plan9port lacks exportfs server

["Roman V. Shaposhnik" <rvs@sun.com>]

Hi Russ!

First of all -- thanks a lot for answering.

On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 09:24 -0700, Russ Cox wrote:
> > somehow it dawned on me that plan9port lacks
> > an application to serve a local filesystem
> > over 9P. Is this on purpose? Am I missing
> > something fundamental that would allow
> > for a moral equivalent of exportfs?
>
> I pull things in as they are needed.
> I have not needed to serve 9P.
> Adding u9fs sounds reasonable, but of
> course it is already in Unix-compilable
> form elsewhere.

Of course, although the utility of plan9port
as a one stop shop for everything Plan9
on UNIX platforms is quite significant.

Hence the question -- would you be in favor
of continue adding things as needed. And
if so, what kind of of groundwork would
you expect from the contributors?

Thanks,
Roman.

P.S. I see that sqweek has the 9pcon
and (not to overcommit myself ;-))
I also might be able to contribute things
like u9fs and nfsserver.