I went out to sorgeforge to find out more about this and my first concern that the last update for v9fs was 1/2006. It does state that The v9fs kernel code was merged into Linux's 2.6.14 development tree marking a fairly major transition for the v9fs project .
'Where ever you go - There you are!! ' Richard (Gaz) Gasiorowski System z - Linux Product Manager Portfolio Platform Services CSC 3170 Fairview Park Dr., Falls Church, VA 22042 845-773-9243 Work|845-392-7889 Cell|[email protected]|www.csc.com This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose. Patrick Spinler <[email protected]> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> 03/27/2009 11:01 AM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: Solaris v. Linux -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This is a really insanely cool idea, and one I've never considered. Also network and union mounting /sys may be worthwhile ... Thanks Erik. I'm definitely going to look into this more closely. - -- Pat Erik N Johnson wrote: > In an attempt to bring things back on topic for Scott, and everybody > else who is supposed to keep e-mail work related (sorry guys!) I would > like to point out a major feature of Linux that people seem to remain > unaware of. In Linux you can get virtually any piece of kernel > information from the vfs through the novel /proc filesystem. I have > discussed this and other ports from the Plan 9 From Bell Labs > operating system to Linux (especially the 9p kernel module.) No other > operating system has, to the best of my knowledge, any attempt at > these features. What's really great about this is that for a z/Linux > farm you can easily use 9p to create a single virtual host whch has a > /mnt all full of: > /mnt > /host1/proc > /host2/proc > ... > /hostN/proc > > then a perl (or shell or python) script ( or ANY filesystem-aware > program, which is pretty open-ended) can easily do: > > foreach host in hosts { > displayRelevantInfo( /mnt/host/proc); > } > > where hosts is the full set of Linux guests. > > Voila, pure Linux NOC w/out nasty, insecure SNMP. With HiperSocket > this is going to be VERY fast. It DOES require a custom kernel on the > virtual host which is serving as the NOC, as 9p is a kernel module. > > This is the type of thing that a GPL-compatible license brings to your OS. > > Erik Johnson > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknM6kwACgkQNObCqA8uBswEwQCeKzOmY3O17M1wNL/tZG26xgAS sPIAoJaHI8uEA2p8c6MGsuoxa3FRI0ev =yJEB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
