From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4873FFCB.7040908@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 18:01:15 -0600 From: don bailey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <13426df10807081425i71388690y65c9eb888b443045@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] why not Lvx for Plan 9? Topicbox-Message-UUID: e04ba99e-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > But Linux use symlinks. Is there a way to make symlinks > on the Plan 9 filesystem and make them accessible with NFS? > The kernel probably doesn't care. Symlinks are just files whose contents are another file's path. As long as the kernel knows how to interpret it I'm sure it'd be fine. Look at the inverse: Plan 9 on Linux simply sees a Linux symlink as what ever the symlink points to. For example, in your 9vx tree do: `ln -s sparc64 v9` and run 9vx.Linux. D