Re: [9fans] 9P or better file services for multiple platforms

2018-09-01 Thread Brian L. Stuart
On Sat, 9/1/18, Lucio De Re wrote: > I'm trying to arrive at the most elegant solution to the following > problem that does not sacrifice a great deal of efficiency. And, maybe > I need to state this, the final result must be as robust or more > robust than what I have in place currently, which

Re: [9fans] 9P or better file services for multiple platforms

2018-09-01 Thread hiro
no, 9p2000.L or Linux syscalls are not supported by plan9.

Re: [9fans] 9P or better file services for multiple platforms

2018-09-01 Thread Ethan Gardener
On Sat, Sep 1, 2018, at 11:29 AM, Rui Carmo wrote: > > I myself have similar needs and recently bookmarked this:  > https://github.com/chaos/diod (but had no time to test it yet). diod's readme states it speaks 9p2000.L. Isn't that incompatible with Plan 9? I recall reading something like,

Re: [9fans] 9P or better file services for multiple platforms

2018-09-01 Thread Joseph Stewart
This thread got me searching and I found MJL's guide for running a plan9 network on a *nix system using u9fs. Hope this helps: https://www.ueber.net/who/mjl/plan9/plan9-obsd.html I'm gonna tinker with this myself. -joe On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 8:20 AM Lucio De Re wrote: > On 9/1/18, Lucio De

Re: [9fans] 9P or better file services for multiple platforms

2018-09-01 Thread Lucio De Re
On 9/1/18, Lucio De Re wrote: > > Trying it out, it fails to find "attach" and there is no clue where > that should come from. It did strike me as complex, but if it serves > an NFS filesystem, that is probably adequate. > > I'll wait to pass judgement for after I have it actually serving >

Re: [9fans] 9P or better file services for multiple platforms

2018-09-01 Thread Lucio De Re
On 9/1/18, Emery Hemingway wrote: > I don't think you can find better than u9fs for unix. > I tend to use that as a norm, but the backing Plan 9 server is kind of in the wrong "key". OK for Plan 9, but too slow for Linux. Still, that sounds like a warning that better that u9fs is not out there.

Re: [9fans] 9P or better file services for multiple platforms

2018-09-01 Thread Emery Hemingway
I don't think you can find better than u9fs for unix. I've tried to use diod once or twice, but it is some weird overengineered linux shit. Emery On Saturday, September 1, 2018 3:33:54 PM CEST, Lucio De Re wrote: On 9/1/18, Rui Carmo wrote: I myself have similar needs and recently

Re: [9fans] 9P or better file services for multiple platforms

2018-09-01 Thread Lucio De Re
On 9/1/18, Rui Carmo wrote: > I myself have similar needs and recently bookmarked this: > https://github.com/chaos/diod (but had no time to test it yet). > Thank you, Rui, that looks pretty exciting, I'll be happy to look into it. It does rather look like Plan 9 itself may have to be of the

Re: [9fans] 9P or better file services for multiple platforms

2018-09-01 Thread Rui Carmo
I myself have similar needs and recently bookmarked this: https://github.com/chaos/diod (but had no time to test it yet). R.