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

[Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>]

Scott Schwartz wrote:

> Is there enough 9p support in linux 2.6 to do that without fuse?

now you're depressing me. Yes, you can do 9p in linux 2.6 without fuse.
You just do a mount. I set a lot of mine up in /etc/fstab.

Or do you mean user mounts? Maybe I missed something.

> Can someone who understands both compare this to v9fs?

Fuse is cute, it works, it's fine for the local case. It seems to be
pretty solid. A very nice point solution, completely useless for what we
do here at LANL. It seems to be easier for people to figure out than 9p
servers. Another issue is that to date the 9p server libraries we had
were mostly p9p-based, and Linux people prefer not to use p9p libraries
to write software, I'm finding. Nothing wrong with p9p libraries, people
just don't want to deal with them. Lucho has developed native Unix
libraries which are pretty nice, and we're moving our software over to
those.

thanks


ron