From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 23:41:58 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] newns(2) and fileservers Topicbox-Message-UUID: 13b50560-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri Feb 1 23:36:38 EST 2013, cinap_lenrek@gmx.de wrote: > A process is started on the remote machine, with authority > of the user of import, to perform work for the local machine > using the exportfs(4) service. which sort of begs the question. either a connection to the fs (via export or 9fs) is expensive, or it is = not. if you can afford a connection per process group for export, then why can't you afford it for 9fs? =E2=98=BA - erik