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| author | Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> | 2011-05-25 09:19:27 -0500 |
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| committer | Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> | 2011-05-25 09:33:05 -0500 |
| commit | ee294bedb6d0658c9934ef5d96951a22003c8886 (patch) | |
| tree | a06361f1f2a2eef2bc6554c0688c1e52d154ae83 /Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt | |
| parent | e75762fdcd27c1d0293d9160b3ac6dcb3371272a (diff) | |
| download | linux-ee294bedb6d0658c9934ef5d96951a22003c8886.tar.gz | |
9p: update Documentation pointers
Update documentation pointers to include virtfs publication, 9p RFC
as well as updated list of servers and alternative clients.
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt')
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt index b22abba78fed..13de64c7f0ab 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt @@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ Other applications are described in the following papers: http://xcpu.org/papers/cellfs-talk.pdf * PROSE I/O: Using 9p to enable Application Partitions http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/iwp9/cready/PROSE_iwp9_2006.pdf + * VirtFS: A Virtualization Aware File System pass-through + http://goo.gl/3WPDg USAGE ===== @@ -130,31 +132,20 @@ OPTIONS RESOURCES ========= -Our current recommendation is to use Inferno (http://www.vitanuova.com/nferno/index.html) -as the 9p server. You can start a 9p server under Inferno by issuing the -following command: - ; styxlisten -A tcp!*!564 export '#U*' +Protocol specifications are maintained on github: +http://ericvh.github.com/9p-rfc/ -The -A specifies an unauthenticated export. The 564 is the port # (you may -have to choose a higher port number if running as a normal user). The '#U*' -specifies exporting the root of the Linux name space. You may specify a -subset of the namespace by extending the path: '#U*'/tmp would just export -/tmp. For more information, see the Inferno manual pages covering styxlisten -and export. +9p client and server implementations are listed on +http://9p.cat-v.org/implementations -A Linux version of the 9p server is now maintained under the npfs project -on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/npfs). The currently -maintained version is the single-threaded version of the server (named spfs) -available from the same SVN repository. +A 9p2000.L server is being developed by LLNL and can be found +at http://code.google.com/p/diod/ There are user and developer mailing lists available through the v9fs project on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/v9fs). -A stand-alone version of the module (which should build for any 2.6 kernel) -is available via (http://github.com/ericvh/9p-sac/tree/master) - -News and other information is maintained on SWiK (http://swik.net/v9fs) -and the Wiki (http://sf.net/apps/mediawiki/v9fs/index.php). +News and other information is maintained on a Wiki. +(http://sf.net/apps/mediawiki/v9fs/index.php). Bug reports may be issued through the kernel.org bugzilla (http://bugzilla.kernel.org) |