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Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:37:15 -0500
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From: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] v9fs question
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On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:19 AM, erik quanstrom<quanstro@coraid.com> wrote=
:
>> > has anyone written anything to deal with an
>> > exportfs connection on linux?
>> >
>>
>> I'm confused about what you are asking.
>
> if i have two plan 9 machines, i can
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0import butts /mnt/consoles /n/consoles
> however, since import and exportfs run a special
> protocol in front of 9p, i don't think it's possible
> to do the same thing from a linux host.
>

Yeah, I don't think anyone is currently doing anything like that.  I
think for a while we were using aname in one of the early 9P servers
to allow the mounting of a sub-hierarchy, but that's been gone for a
while I think and still wouldn't do the exact same thing you are
describing.

       -eric