From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Using 9P(2000) in Unix/Linux(/Windows)
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Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 07:59:05 -0600
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On Thu, 15 May 2003, Anssi Porttikivi wrote:

> A practical need I have in mind and which prompted me to ask: when
> booting a CD based 'live' Linux (like Knoppix) on an arbitrary PC
> machine I'd like to mount my home directory (with all dot filed
> settings) securely over the Internet.

we've done mounts-over-ssh in v9fs, through our firewall. It works, but
the problem is we have no error handling yet. If you lose the connection
for some reason we can't yet unmount the file system in a clean way; and
we don't yet make it possible to recreate the mount (and all the fids
etc.) if you can get the connection back. Error handling for the 'file
server went away' case sucks, basically.

ron