From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 References: <0F3972F5-D44B-4231-97FA-C6CE871B032B@gmail.com> Message-Id: <9312B4CC-C455-4037-A15E-B2DF9133DC12@gmail.com> From: Eric Van Hensbergen To: Tim Newsham In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 7A341) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:47:21 -0500 Cc: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] v9fs question Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1bbf9d5e-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Try an ip address instead of the DNS name. For the DNS name you'll need a helper like 9mount. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 11, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Tim Newsham wrote: > On Sat, 11 Jul 2009, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: >> Hmmm, that's really new behavior-- never used to fail without mount >> helper. Can you give the exact error message? > > # strace -o trace.txt mount -t 9p thenewsh.com /mnt > mount: Protocol not supported > > Trace.txt is attached with full details. > > I've tried several variants, such as thenewsh.com:/path > with similar results. > >> On Jul 11, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Tim Newsham wrote: >> >>> The documentation in the linux kernel says you merely >>> >>> mount -t 9p ipaddress /mntpoint >>> this fails on my system since /sbin/mount tries to execute /sbin/ >>> mount.9p and fails. Am I supposed to have an /sbin/mount.9p? >>> (Anyone know which ubunutu package should have this? If not, >>> where I might find sources? Ironic since Ubuntu came with the 9p >>> kernel module) Or should I be using a different mount program for >>> the purpose? >>> The linux Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt should probably be >>> updated with more details, either way. >>> Tim Newsham >>> http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/ >> > > Tim Newsham > http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/ >