[9fans] p9 file server (npfs) w/ authentication from heterogenous systems

[Jakob Praher <jp@hapra.at>]

Dear all,

I have read a post from Eric Van Hensbergen about paravirtualized
filesystems. This was of interest to me, and I tried to pull npfs from
subversion. As a client I am using the 9pfuse to mount the tree of the
npfs server. Is this a good match, or should I use something from the
npfs tree directly? Is npfs the best choice if I would like to export
ufs like filesystems?

After getting it basically up I am facing typically newbie issues, and
I would like to share my problems with you in hope to find some
further directions in order to do some further RTFM.

My biggest issue is that I can only do read operations on the client.
How can I set up something like a basic authenticated connection. Just
to get the uid over to the npfs in order to act as the right user on
the server? I read a bit about factotum, yet I am not sure given the
npfs that it supports it...

Thank you in advance.
Jakob