From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) In-Reply-To: References: <40ab2d5e4c5768f82b8b3b8d1570b09d@proxima.alt.za> <20061212152551.GA18552@suckless.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <8B7547BD-3030-45D8-AF9F-DC4691ACDDE3@lanl.gov> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Latchesar Ionkov Subject: Re: [9fans] UBUNTU and v9fs Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:11:55 -0700 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: f2e28c8c-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 There are many 9P servers coming with p9p. You can also write your own servers either using p9p or lib{s,n}pfs. Lucho On Dec 12, 2006, at 11:58 AM, csant wrote: >>> Wow, does Ubuntu come with a 9p kernel module by default? That's >>> sweet... >> >> all part of the virtue of being in the mainline kernel. We probably >> should be more diligent about backporting fixes to popular kernel >> releases (such as dapper), but I doubt we have enough users yet to >> justify distribution maintainers to pull them. Similar goes for >> getting 9p servers in by default. > > The latter point is worth being addressed: currently it is all but > straightforward to set up a proper 9p filesystem (with > authentication), mainly due to the lack of a server. As long as > there is no server readily available 9p will have trouble gaining > any ground on Linux beyond Plan 9 users running also Linux. I > therefore very much look forward to your planned efforts for next > year to work on a server. > > /c