On Fri Dec  4 16:45:34 EST 2009, [email protected] wrote:
> Does remote USB make sense?  Would it be possible to boot
> up a plan9 system on one machine, export its usb device to
> another machine and run usbd there and have the second machine
> make use of any usb device attached to the first machine?
> Would the latency be too high?

it might make sense to do the opposite.  import namespace onto
the machine with the usb and run usbd there.  (e.g. for a keyboard-like
device.)  for a disk-like device, it may make sense to import the
disk  at the disk level.

i've done both with aoe, importing '#æ' and '#l'.  there are interesting
tradeoffs that depend an awful lot on what you're tunneling via 9p.

- erik

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