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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] remote usb?
Date: Fri,  4 Dec 2009 17:00:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <72ba1a884796f08c5f3d0332e2b4d6ab@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<Pine.BSI.4.64.0912041141570.13404@malasada.lava.net>>

On Fri Dec  4 16:45:34 EST 2009, newsham@lava.net wrote:
> Does remote USB make sense?  Would it be possible to boot
> up a plan9 system on one machine, export its usb device to
> another machine and run usbd there and have the second machine
> make use of any usb device attached to the first machine?
> Would the latency be too high?

it might make sense to do the opposite.  import namespace onto
the machine with the usb and run usbd there.  (e.g. for a keyboard-like
device.)  for a disk-like device, it may make sense to import the
disk  at the disk level.

i've done both with aoe, importing '#æ' and '#l'.  there are interesting
tradeoffs that depend an awful lot on what you're tunneling via 9p.

- erik



       reply	other threads:[~2009-12-04 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <<Pine.BSI.4.64.0912041141570.13404@malasada.lava.net>
2009-12-04 22:00 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-12-04 22:11 Francisco J Ballesteros
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-12-04 21:43 Tim Newsham
2009-12-04 21:48 ` Don Bailey
2009-12-04 22:15 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2009-12-05  1:21 ` Axel Belinfante

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