9fs on the internet

9fs on the internet

[Bob]

In message <94Apr15.001532edt.3010@groucho.cse.psu.edu>, Scott Schwartz writes:
>According to the statistics from Merit, there's at least some 9fs
>traffic on the internet.  For March:
>
>name	port packets bytes
>9pfs    564  41350   4358750
>
>If there's anyone who will admit to doing this, do they care
>to discuss the results?  Was performance reasonable, compared
>to AFS, say?  Any security worries?
>
>-- Scott

It could be me. 

I have a laptop (Compaq LTE/25e, 486, 200meg disk, 12meg mem) that I carried
with me from Sydney to Wisconsin (sabattical leave). I plug it into the 
ethernet here every now and then and mount a file system back in Sydney.
I also took it to the last IETF meeting in Seattle and did the same thing.

I've made a new kernal with SLIP support on a machine in Sydney and copied it 
across. Performance was acceptable but I can't compare it with other systems.

Bob.

9fs on the internet

[Scott]

According to the statistics from Merit, there's at least some 9fs
traffic on the internet.  For March:

name	port packets bytes
9pfs    564  41350   4358750

If there's anyone who will admit to doing this, do they care
to discuss the results?  Was performance reasonable, compared
to AFS, say?  Any security worries?

-- Scott