From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:35:55 -0600 From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <3ADF7D1A-295E-42EA-BFFB-C7739BBC3FF7@sun.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5d375e920811121100o15702c64ufb6e367220606058@mail.gmail.com> <4506d967646c9cd2dd052fb9f5356c7f@plan9.bell-labs.com> <3ADF7D1A-295E-42EA-BFFB-C7739BBC3FF7@sun.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Do we have a catalog of 9P servers? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 41acd8d4-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > > But along the very same line of thought -- wouldn't it also then be > much more reasonable to stick with an "alternative aname" > approach when adopting 9P for symlinks, FIFOs and the > rest of the POSIX paraphernalia? > > You pay with a slightly more complicated server, but you > reap a huge benefit in a form of: > > term% srvssh unix unix-fs > term% mount /srv/unix-fs /n/unix-fs > term% mount /srv/unix-fs /n/unix-fs-symlinks posix-symlinks I wasn't aware of anyone looking for this particular functionality. We look forward to your server implementation(s). -eric