Re: [9fans] p9 file server (npfs) w/ authentication fromheterogenous systems

[Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>]

On Jan 25, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Jakob Praher <jp@hapra.at> wrote:

> Hi,
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> Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> schrieb:
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>> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Jakob Praher <jp@hapra.at> wrote:
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>> (I know of) which support the UNIX extensions (for things like UID
>> mapping, etc.)
>> There is a comprehensive list: http://9p.cat-v.org/implementations
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> I am currently on MacOS X and Linux. I thought that npfs is a
> successor of
> v9fs?

No, v9fs is the kernel 9p client.  Npfs contains user space clients
and servers.


> I have now also installed u9fs which is part of the Plan 9 iso. This
> seams to be a complete Unix file system exporting solution for
> accesing
> remote file systems from Plan 9.

It is functional, but single threaded and synchronous.

> My question is if I use the Plan9 in user
> space port on the client side it would be theoretically possible to
> use
> the u9fs from non native Plan9 machines too?. What are the main
> problems I
> am running into if I do it this way?
>

No problems per say, but as the auth server hasn't been ported to p9p
you'll have to run a native plan 9 auth server or 9vx.

     -eric
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