Re: [9fans] ssh v2, using a remote linux server

[Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>]

> 2)
> More generally:
> I use a powerful linux machine for doing some havier calculations. I
> have no possibility of changing anything serious on that computer
> (like that it could serve ssh v1), I am just an ordinary user. So far
> I usually do the programming on my 'local' linux computer using p9p
> versions of acme & rc (sometimes the linux's gvim), run some small
> manageable tests on this local computer, then make a copy to the
> remote machine, recompile it there (fortran) using a textual ssh
> connection, and finally run it there. This brings along a /number of
> complications... It'd be nicer if I could use the remote linux machine
> in a way a plan9 cpu server is used. Is this possible?

When you're developing on the big machine,
you could mount the big machine's file system
locally, and then you can continue to use acme
to edit.  If you want to use 9p, you could add
the -e flag to srv and then use u9fs over ssh + 9pfuse.
Alternately, if you have fuse installed you could
use sshfs instead (Linux tool, not p9p tool).

This way you mount the remote machine on /n/big
and set things up so that the remote machine
sends back path names like /n/big/home/you,
so things like plumbing continue to work just fine.
(Instead of awd in your cd alias (see label(1)), you'd
use label /n/big`pwd`/-big.)

Russ