From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <0F3972F5-D44B-4231-97FA-C6CE871B032B@gmail.com> <140e7ec30907130124g1a0e4c90m6d83a08516d95463@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:00:43 -0500 Message-ID: From: Eric Van Hensbergen To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] v9fs question Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1d74c458-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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. =A0This >> 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