Re: [9fans] Using 9P(2000) in Unix/Linux(/Windows)

[ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>]

On Wed, 14 May 2003, Anssi Porttikivi wrote:

> What is the state of the art in trying to use 9P within various Unix
> variations and even with Microsoft OS's? There might be a window of
> opportunity here to make it a new World Wide Way to connect at file
> level.

v9fs (v9fs.sourceforge.net) is a Linux VFS that supports 9p2000 and has
been tested to 1024 client nodes here on the Pink cluster. Greg Watson has
made extensions to Russ Cox's u9fs to make it able to serve that many
machines, and the performance is reasonable (though the mount takes 20
seconds total for 1024 nodes -- although it sometimes takes only 9 seconds
-- I love linux tcp).

I've also used v9fs through ssh connections for secure remote mounts over
various networks.

> Maybe we need to promote 9P independent from Plan 9?

Done, now we just need to get some things fixed (factotum on Linux would
be nice) and convince people to try it.

ron