From: Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] cifs fails on nodes named aux
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 08:49:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJSxfmK81r1n5LGJi0gX=_juHavY0jFD8Mk0fmAZnBuCAAmAZQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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If you want to solve your problem -- rather than trying to figure out why
linux cifs might want to completely emulate windows to a plan9 client --
i'd suggest importing things from linux with sftpfs or running something
like u9fs on linux side, etc.
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Ingo Krabbe <ikrabbe.ask@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ingo Krabbe <ikrabbe.ask@gmail.com> wrote:
> > |Hey,
> > |
> > |I found a quite strange effect with cifs (plan9 bell labs edition). \
> > |I use cifs to mount werc installations from p9p linux servers. \
> > |Cifs is needed here, as the virtual hosted machine does not \
> > |support nfs. Maybe I should switch to another userspace filesystem,\
> > | but for now its cifs.
> >
> > cifs is Windows, i think.
> > If this is the case, then you may run into the issue of implicit
> > filenames. Search «aux tale», or browse
> > <heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx_aux_c.html>.
>
> Yes, cifs is used often to mount windows shares, but in this special case
> I just chose cifs, as NFS has no current user space server and I want to
> share some filesystems of a virtual host, where I can't add kernel modules.
>
> So actually in my setup I use a Linux CIFS Server (aka. smbd, samba) and
> the cifs client from plan9.
>
> The shared filesystem originally is a ext2 (or 3 or 4).
>
> Should I really have managed to step over a system design bug that is
> imported from 1978 till now, through all systems and versions.
>
> Actually, mounting the cifs with a linux mount -t cifs command maps the
> "aux" filename correctly. So the bug might just have been imported into the
> plan9 cifs client.
>
> Funny bug.
>
> > [.]
> > |Any hints for debugging this might help.
> >
> > Maybe.
> > Ciao
> >
> > |cheers
> > |
> > |ingo krabbe
> >
> > --steffen
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Steffen Daode Nurpmeso <sdaoden@gmail.com>
> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
> Cc:
> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 11:39:33 +0200
> Subject: Re: [9fans] cifs fails on nodes named aux
> Ingo Krabbe <ikrabbe.ask@gmail.com> wrote:
> |Hey,
> |
> |I found a quite strange effect with cifs (plan9 bell labs edition). \
> |I use cifs to mount werc installations from p9p linux servers. \
> |Cifs is needed here, as the virtual hosted machine does not \
> |support nfs. Maybe I should switch to another userspace filesystem,\
> | but for now its cifs.
>
> cifs is Windows, i think.
> If this is the case, then you may run into the issue of implicit
> filenames. Search «aux tale», or browse
> <heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx_aux_c.html>.
>
> [.]
> |Any hints for debugging this might help.
>
> Maybe.
> Ciao
>
> |cheers
> |
> |ingo krabbe
>
> --steffen
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-28 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-28 9:13 Ingo Krabbe
2013-08-28 9:39 ` Steffen Daode Nurpmeso
2013-08-28 9:51 ` Ingo Krabbe
2013-08-28 11:26 ` erik quanstrom
2013-08-28 13:30 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-08-28 21:49 ` Steffen Daode Nurpmeso
2013-08-28 15:49 ` Skip Tavakkolian [this message]
2013-08-30 20:26 ` Steve Simon
2013-08-30 21:17 ` cinap_lenrek
2013-08-28 14:26 Erik Quanstrom
2013-08-28 15:10 ` dexen deVries
2013-08-28 15:39 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-08-28 17:45 ` Ingo Krabbe
2013-08-28 21:54 ` Steffen Daode Nurpmeso
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