Subject: Re: mounting 9P file services
To: Alistair Crooks <agc@pkgsrc.org>
From: Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh@nimenees.com>
List: current-users
Date: 04/25/2007 11:10:33
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 10:21:36AM +0100, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 04:10:09PM +0300, Antti Kantee wrote:
> > Hi (again),
> >
> > The past weekend support for mounting 9P file servers using puffs was
> > added. To access them, do the normal puffs build tricks and then run:
> > mount_9p <user> <server address> <mountpoint>
> >
> > If you do not have a 9P file share to play around with, you can opt
> > to run u9fs on NetBSD. First get the u9fs server from
> > <http://sourceforge.net/projects/v9fs/>.
>
> To make things easier for people, u9fs has been added to pkgsrc:
>
> pkgsrc/filesystems/u9fs
So what exactly is v9fs? I took a quick look at the webpage, but
it wasn't very clear. (resource sharing? huh?)
eric