From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 17:00:01 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <72ba1a884796f08c5f3d0332e2b4d6ab@ladd.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: <> References: <> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [9fans] remote usb? Topicbox-Message-UUID: a7a7a79e-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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