Re: [9front] 9pfs

[Romano <me+unobe@fallglow.com>]

I think you might want to consider drawterm without graphics mode, running on those different systems: drawterm -G. Then you can use os(1) on 9front to run commands on each system from your 9front system.

On Sat, Oct 5, 2024, at 11:33 AM, william@thinktankworkspaces.com wrote:
> Wow. I really got it wrong. I guess, I guess I just want 9front running 
> every where. One team runs struts,
> another payara, and another flask. The eco system is just different. I 
> certainly don't want to share my
> file system with them. But It would be nice to have stats running on 
> each linux system, and maybe setup a listener to do something 
> interesting and share or expose something on the linux side and not 
> have a qemu with
> 9front.iso running on each linux system. 
>
>
> Quoth Jacob Moody <moody@posixcafe.org>:
>> On 10/5/24 11:26, william@thinktankworkspaces.com wrote:
>> > Oh I see. I do have a 9front server running. This is my first exeriment with 9pfs. I just wanted to 
>> > throw 9pfs on a Mac and a few linux boxes. I guess I just wanted to connect without the hassel of 
>> > ssh or sshfs. But it does sound like I need a few more tools to really get the benefit out of it
>> > beyond 9pfs, meaning that I suppose I need plan9ports installed and factotum and a few other things or is 
>> > that incorrect. Strange enough but I'm kind of getting attached to acme editor and have been using it
>> > in my daily life with sshfs and changing code on remote servers. It's light weight as opposed to vscode
>> > or intellij running remotely which is heavy. I loose some benefits but I gain others. 
>> > 
>> > So I thought to kind of expand with 9pfs and take advantage of some additional features. 
>> > 
>> 
>> Hold on here, it's still not clear exactly what the end result is that you're looking for here.
>> 
>> Let's start from the top here:
>> 
>> 9pfs does not require anything from plan9port.
>> 9pfs is a fuse 9p client.
>> 9pfs connects to a system that is running a 9p file server (over port 564 by default).
>> This means your mac is initiating a network connection to your 9front machine, so the 9front machine must be listening for 9p.
>> Ssh and sshfs go the other way, they initiate a network connection from 9front to a machine running ssh.
>> 9pfs would expose the 9front's files to your mac, sshfs exposes your macs files to your 9front.
>> A 9front machine does not expose its root filesystem over 9p by default, that requires some modifications.
>> 
>> This is why I was asking about the networking status of your 9front machine (ie can you ping it, is it listening on port 564 etc)
>> 
>> 
>> Hope this helps,
>> moody
>> 
>>