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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] FreeBSD 9p work
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 02:37:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0209130235300.17064-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54e7962c0f199b095b711d14898dbee0@collyer.net>



On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Geoff Collyer wrote:

> The copy in /sys/src/cmd/unix/9pfreebsd was done for FreeBSD 3.2,
> which is pretty old now.  But with IL being phased out, you might not
> need kernel mods at all.  Using the NFS/vfs/vnode goo, you can
> probably write a user-mode file server that talks 9P to the remote
> server and NFS/vfs/vnode goo to the local client(s).

Not really - NFS semantics doesn't match 9p and writing a protocol
translator of that sort will be rather painful.



  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-13  6:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-13  5:28 Geoff Collyer
2002-09-13  6:37 ` Alexander Viro [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-13  8:44 nigel
2002-09-13  6:41 Geoff Collyer
2002-09-13  7:29 ` Alexander Viro
2002-09-14  0:19   ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-09-13  9:41 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-09-13  4:07 anothy

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