On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 2:26 PM, <rbnsw-pl...@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > > --- On Wed, 8/6/11, I wrote in part: > >> I am old enough to remember RFS the Remote File Sharing >> Protocol on SVR4 that offered access to remote devices, but >> I don't have that and I'm not aware of whether there are any >> distributed fileĀ protocols freely available for *nix >> that do that. > > Um, does v9fs remote Linux devices? I find it hard to imagine it would remote > ioctls but it makes sense *nix to *nix. >
Depends on how you configure it. There is a nodevmap option to the v9fs mount which will instruct it to just access the remote devices directly instead of just mapping their major/minor numbers to local devices. You are correct in your imagining that we don't go anywhere near ioctls with a 10 foot pole. However, many things "just work" without ioctls these days. > > That just leaves my issues with X. > Actually, its a bit worse than that. The physical network devices aren't file system accessible anymore, so you'd need to remote them as a service (via Inferno or something) or use the tap device and remote that and hope that it doesn't require ioctls (and I think it might). -eric