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 <newsham@lava.net> 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/