From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:18:26 -0500 From: "Dan Cross" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <1228156310.18951.40.camel@goose.sun.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1FAD6133-18F8-444F-BD6E-795999DE3170@sun.com> <13426df10812011017y6b96a586k81e00b86e9e6a383@mail.gmail.com> <1228156310.18951.40.camel@goose.sun.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] How to implement a moral equivalent of automounter in Plan9? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 554f9b06-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Roman V. Shaposhnik wrote: > In Plan9 land you don't need automounter to deal with > /media/floppy. But cd /net/ is not there. > At least not by default. I see what you're after. If that's all you want, though, I have to confess I don't see how it would be too hard to implement. You could just write a shim filesystem that would sit on top of /net and monitor walk's and handle importing and mounting for you. If you followed a simple convention of always referring to a filesystem as, say, '/a/' then it wouldn't require any configuration at all. Hell, you could probably even implement it as a shell script. What's not there, aside from the program itself, of course? - Dan C.