[9fans] writing 9p servers and clients under gnu/linux

[9fans] writing 9p servers and clients under gnu/linux

[Enrico Weigelt]

Hi folks,

I'd like to do some experiments with 9p and write some little
servers and clients for running on Unix systems (ie. GNU/Linux).

There are some packages (ie.u9fs and npfs) but they neither
worked for me, nor did I find any documentaion :(

Any tips ?

thx
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Re: [9fans] writing 9p servers and clients under gnu/linux

[Eric Van Hensbergen]

On 3/30/07, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
> I'd like to do some experiments with 9p and write some little
> servers and clients for running on Unix systems (ie. GNU/Linux).
>
> There are some packages (ie.u9fs and npfs) but they neither
> worked for me, nor did I find any documentaion :(
>
> Any tips ?
>

You really want spfs (which is under the npfs directory).  Either
Lucho or I can help you with any problems you are having.  I also have
some half-formed developer works articles on writing file systems with
npfs that I can send you.

           -eric

Re: [9fans] writing 9p servers and clients under gnu/linux

[erik quanstrom]

one can also use p9p.

- erik

On Fri Mar 30 08:08:34 EDT 2007, ericvh@gmail.com wrote:
> On 3/30/07, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
> > I'd like to do some experiments with 9p and write some little
> > servers and clients for running on Unix systems (ie. GNU/Linux).
> >
> > There are some packages (ie.u9fs and npfs) but they neither
> > worked for me, nor did I find any documentaion :(
> >
> > Any tips ?
> >
> 
> You really want spfs (which is under the npfs directory).  Either
> Lucho or I can help you with any problems you are having.  I also have
> some half-formed developer works articles on writing file systems with
> npfs that I can send you.
> 
>            -eric

Re: [9fans] writing 9p servers and clients under gnu/linux

[Uriel]

You can use Inferno too.

For a list of other options see also http://cat-v.org/9p/ spfs is not
there because as far as I know there have been no spfs releases so
far, when lucho releases a tarball (and I hope posts an announcement
to 9p-hackers) I will add it.

Best wishes

uriel

On 3/30/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
> one can also use p9p.
>
> - erik
>
> On Fri Mar 30 08:08:34 EDT 2007, ericvh@gmail.com wrote:
> > On 3/30/07, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
> > > I'd like to do some experiments with 9p and write some little
> > > servers and clients for running on Unix systems (ie. GNU/Linux).
> > >
> > > There are some packages (ie.u9fs and npfs) but they neither
> > > worked for me, nor did I find any documentaion :(
> > >
> > > Any tips ?
> > >
> >
> > You really want spfs (which is under the npfs directory).  Either
> > Lucho or I can help you with any problems you are having.  I also have
> > some half-formed developer works articles on writing file systems with
> > npfs that I can send you.
> >
> >            -eric
>

Re: [9fans] writing 9p servers and clients under gnu/linux

[ron minnich]

I like spfs. It works fine for me. Get the v9fs tree and look at the
distribution server that ollie and I wrote -- it's a nice, simple
example of a combined client/server and it was quite easy to write.


spfs is so simple and easy to use that a simple server, in my view, is
better than any amount of documentation.

thanks

ron

Re: [9fans] writing 9p servers and clients under gnu/linux

[Latchesar Ionkov]

I think you mean xcpu, not v9fs tree :)

	Lucho

On Mar 30, 2007, at 10:43 AM, ron minnich wrote:

> I like spfs. It works fine for me. Get the v9fs tree and look at the
> distribution server that ollie and I wrote -- it's a nice, simple
> example of a combined client/server and it was quite easy to write.
>
>
> spfs is so simple and easy to use that a simple server, in my view, is
> better than any amount of documentation.
>
> thanks
>
> ron

Re: [9fans] writing 9p servers and clients under gnu/linux

[ron minnich]

On 3/30/07, Latchesar Ionkov <lionkov@lanl.gov> wrote:
> I think you mean xcpu, not v9fs tree :)


Right, sorry.

ron

[9fans] Re: writing 9p servers and clients under gnu/linux

[Darren Bane]

Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'd like to do some experiments with 9p and write some little
> servers and clients for running on Unix systems (ie. GNU/Linux).
> 
> There are some packages (ie.u9fs and npfs) but they neither
> worked for me, nor did I find any documentaion :(
> 
> Any tips ?

Install plan9port ( http://swtch.com/plan9port/ ).  Read "9 man 3 9p"
for how to write servers.  You don't need to do anything special to
write clients, Linux can mount 9p filesystems and you can just do file
I/O on them.
-- 
Darren Bane

Re: [9fans] Re: writing 9p servers and clients under gnu/linux

[ron minnich]

On 3/30/07, Darren Bane <darren.bane@gmail.com> wrote:

> Install plan9port ( http://swtch.com/plan9port/ ).  Read "9 man 3 9p"
> for how to write servers.  You don't need to do anything special to
> write clients, Linux can mount 9p filesystems and you can just do file
> I/O on them.

These libraries are a fine way to go if you want to write servers with
the p9p library that can pretty much also work on Plan 9. We did that
for a while with xcpu, but a number of considerations (performance,
familiarity for people on other projects, bugs, etc.) moved us away
from p9p to Lucho's server libraries. They work very well.

thanks

ron