Re: Re: [9fans] mount 9P on Linux and FreeBSD via FUSE

["David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

On 7/28/06, Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/28/06, csant <csant@csant.info> wrote:
> > > this allows me (without becoming root or having v9fs) to
> > >       ; mount $home/9/acme
> >
> > But you'd have the 9p module, obviously. It's such a nonsene that the
> > linux kernel doesn't allow mounting for non-privileged users
> > out-of-the-box, IMO. I like filesystems in userspace.
> >
>
> This was discussed a bit at OLS -  there have been folks working
> towards it for a bit, but I think we'll finally see it within the next
> year.

I wonder how dragonflyBSD is coming along with their VFS "messaging"
stuff.  They want to make it easy to do SSI clusters (single system
image).  It sounds like FUSE would be completely redundant on this
platform, and one could implement 9p translation trivially.

I once asked if Matt had even looked at plan 9's way of making things
plug into the filesystem namespace via 9p and I actually don't
remember what his response was but he seemed that he really wanted to
do it his way :-)

Dave

>
>        -eric
>