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Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 20:49:56 -0700
From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme mailreader - now: User mode filesystems in linux
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On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, boyd, rounin wrote:

> > I think it would be better to just implement the v9fs protocol
> > and let users mount it in a similar way as nfs.
> 
> been there, done that.  nfs is no fun.  you have to get right up into
> the vfs layer.

ah, boyd, you gotta read what he's saying cause it's what we want.  All
Tim is saying is "let's just go 9p2000 from Linux VFS layer to userland
servers". This is good. And since v9fs does that, and it's basically there 
on 2.6, it's the right way to go. 

ron