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Subject: Re: [9fans] FreeBSD 9p work
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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:41:17 +0200
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Geoff Collyer wrote:

> Is the vnode or VFS machinery really not sufficiently
> general to handle file system protocols other than NFS?

The VFS layer should be general enough to implement 9p,
whereas the NFS layer is not.  NFS has no close operation
which would really cause you problems with 9p.

I once wrote a version of ftpfs which ran as an NFS user
mode server.  It worked, but was an extremely ugly thing.