From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: From: Eric Van Hensbergen To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 5G77) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:08:08 -0600 References: <7B8C87F2-DB31-4B60-A7E8-E7B51F42B888%jp@hapra.at> Subject: Re: [9fans] p9 file server (npfs) w/ authentication fromheterogenous systems Topicbox-Message-UUID: 867603a0-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Jan 25, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Jakob Praher wrote: > Hi, > > > Eric Van Hensbergen schrieb: > >> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Jakob Praher wrote: >>>> >> (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 >> > 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 >> >> >> >> >>