From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 12 May 2011 13:14:55 CDT." References: <20110512164916.GA12861@clanspum.net> Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 11:52:30 -0700 From: Bakul Shah Message-Id: <20110512185230.20B9AB827@mail.bitblocks.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] exportfs / u9fs / v9fs / npfs / spfs versus 9vx Topicbox-Message-UUID: e273936e-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, 12 May 2011 13:14:55 CDT Stanley Lieber wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Daniel Lyons wro= > te: > > Here's my situation: I have a FreeBSD VPS somewhere in the world. I > > have 9vx locally. I want to access files on the FreeBSD VPS from my > > 9vx running over here. How? > > > > =C2=A0- exportfs doesn't exist in p9p. > > =C2=A0- u9fs seems to be defunct; there's nowhere to download the source. > > =C2=A0- v9fs seems to be Linux-only. > > =C2=A0- npfs seems to be nothing but an umbrella for spfs. > > =C2=A0- spfs seems to build a binary "ufs" which, no matter how I run it, > > =C2=A0 exits right away. Did I miss some documentation? > > > > What's going on? It feels like I'm missing some obvious trick. > > Security for this operation would be nice, but I don't consider it > > necessary. > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- > > Daniel Lyons > > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/unix/u9fs > > This is the basis of the OpenBSD port. unix/9pfreebsd is really too old to be useful but may be one can start a new FreeBSD port from the openBSD bits? I'd be interested in such a thing.