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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] FreeBSD 9p work
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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 02:37:47 -0400
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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.