From: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] v9fs question
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:00:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a4e6962a0907131500y2414bd3es21de15e736bc2a3f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f4d8fa40907131344p44ea34d5kfd2e99537d96ab65@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:44 PM, hiro<23hiro@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Well, IMHO it would be nice to have it named (or symlinked as) mount.9p
>> folks who mount as root could get the helper automatically. This
>> would be nice for the standard Linux admin who is mounting crap as
>> root anyways and trips over the DNS resolution error because all
>> they are used to is NFS which mount has always done DNS for.
>
> If they invest their time to find out about the mount.9p command,
> won't they rather easily understand the DNS issue?
>
Well, if someone installs the mount.9p package, then it "just works"
-- at least at the same level of "just works" as CIFS and the other
second-class distributed file systems for Linux. Its easier to tell
someone to install a package than step them through installing and
using a different command for mount than mount.
-eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-13 22:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-11 18:46 Tim Newsham
2009-07-11 18:50 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-07-11 19:03 ` Tim Newsham
2009-07-11 19:47 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-07-11 20:03 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-07-12 3:19 ` Uriel
2009-07-13 8:24 ` sqweek
2009-07-13 8:51 ` hiro
2009-07-13 14:20 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-07-13 20:44 ` hiro
2009-07-13 21:45 ` hiro
2009-07-13 22:05 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-07-13 22:18 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-07-13 23:16 ` ron minnich
2009-07-13 23:22 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-07-13 23:37 ` ron minnich
2009-07-13 23:47 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-07-13 23:41 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-07-13 23:50 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-14 0:00 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-07-14 0:06 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-14 0:01 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-07-14 0:08 ` ron minnich
2009-07-14 0:46 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-07-14 0:42 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-07-14 0:58 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-07-14 1:28 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2009-07-14 1:35 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-07-14 2:05 ` Tim Newsham
2009-07-14 0:42 ` Tim Newsham
2009-07-14 0:50 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-14 0:56 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-07-14 4:51 ` lucio
2009-07-14 4:29 ` lucio
2009-07-14 4:26 ` lucio
2009-07-13 22:00 ` Eric Van Hensbergen [this message]
2009-07-14 19:05 ` sqweek
2009-07-14 20:11 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-07-13 14:59 ` lucio
2009-07-13 15:04 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-07-13 15:08 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2009-07-13 19:51 ` Tim Newsham
2009-07-14 7:34 ` sqweek
2009-07-14 11:08 ` roger peppe
2009-07-14 11:20 ` hiro
2009-07-14 12:48 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-07-14 15:45 ` ron minnich
2009-07-14 16:31 ` Tim Newsham
2009-07-14 20:21 ` roger peppe
2009-07-14 13:10 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-07-14 13:23 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-14 14:26 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-07-14 14:44 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-14 14:33 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2009-07-14 14:54 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-07-14 15:01 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-14 15:13 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-07-14 15:19 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-14 15:37 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-07-14 16:12 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-14 16:19 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-07-14 15:06 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2009-07-14 15:48 ` ron minnich
2009-07-14 15:59 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-07-14 14:37 ` Latchesar Ionkov
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