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From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Private Namespaces for Linux
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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 22:26:19 -0700
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Matt wrote:

> Dr Dobbs has an interesting article
>
> Private Namespaces for Linux
> Uses for distributed and cluster computing
>
> By Ronald G. Minnich
>
> http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=1782/ddj0112a/0112a.htm
>
> "Working from publicly available documents, I've built an implementation of
> the Plan 9 filesystem protocol and tested its user-mode components on
> FreeBSD, Solaris, SunOS, and Linux. I have also written a kernel-mode virtual
> filesystem (VFS) that runs on Linux."
>

I did the best I could absent the real plan 9 code :-)

source is now at http://www.acl.lanl.gov/~rminnich

I am trying to put this on the sourceforge with a much longer paper (from
which the Dobbs article is derived) that is much more detail-filled.

I hope this code is useful to somebody. The 9p protocol was a real breath
of fresh air after years of hacking NFS and SunRPC.

ron