On 7/28/06, Ronald G Minnich <[email protected]> wrote:
Scott Schwartz wrote:
> Is there enough 9p support in linux 2.6 to do that without fuse?
now you're depressing me. Yes, you can do 9p in linux 2.6 without fuse.
You just do a mount. I set a lot of mine up in /etc/fstab.
Or do you mean user mounts? Maybe I missed something.
User mounts (w/either FUSE or 9p) can be "tricked out" with a set-uid
mount helper (9p's would be called mount.9P I think). Such a helper
is also needed in 9p to do DNS resolution (NFS name resolution is the
only special-case in mount). I believe Lucho had a 9p helper that
took care of DNS resolution, could be made setuid and maybe even tried
to handle auth.
Its in the app directory on v9fs' sourceforge CVS. The discussion of
OLS was about how to remove the need for having a set-uid helper.
-eric
