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Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 12:26:05 -0700
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Subject: [9fans] RFS alternatives (Was: Living with Plan 9)
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--- On Wed, 8/6/11, I wrote in part:

> I am old enough to remember RFS the Remote File Sharing
> Protocol on SVR4 that offered access to remote devices, but
> I don't have that and I'm not aware of whether there are any
> distributed file=A0 protocols freely available for *nix
> that do that.

Um, does v9fs remote Linux devices? I find it hard to imagine it would remo=
te ioctls but it makes sense *nix to *nix.

If not, are there any other alternatives? Are there any gotchas remoting *n=
ix devices?

If v9fs works in such a configuration it would eliminate most of the issues=
 I have with *nix resource sharing - unless I use a platform without 9fs a =
9fs client and servers.

That just leaves my issues with X.

Cheers,

Andrew