- V9FS: 9P2000 for Linux
- ======================
+ v9fs: Plan 9 Resource Sharing for Linux
+ =======================================
ABOUT
=====
This software was originally developed by Ron Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
and Maya Gokhale <maya@lanl.gov>. Additional development by Greg Watson
<gwatson@lanl.gov> and most recently Eric Van Hensbergen
-<ericvh@gmail.com> and Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>.
+<ericvh@gmail.com>, Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> and Russ Cox
+<rsc@swtch.com>.
USAGE
=====
For remote file server:
- mount -t 9P 10.10.1.2 /mnt/9
+ mount -t 9p 10.10.1.2 /mnt/9
For Plan 9 From User Space applications (http://swtch.com/plan9)
- mount -t 9P `namespace`/acme /mnt/9 -o proto=unix,name=$USER
+ mount -t 9p `namespace`/acme /mnt/9 -o proto=unix,uname=$USER
OPTIONS
=======
fd - used passed file descriptors for connection
(see rfdno and wfdno)
- name=name user name to attempt mount as on the remote server. The
+ uname=name user name to attempt mount as on the remote server. The
server may override or ignore this value. Certain user
names may require authentication.
debug=n specifies debug level. The debug level is a bitmask.
0x01 = display verbose error messages
0x02 = developer debug (DEBUG_CURRENT)
- 0x04 = display 9P trace
+ 0x04 = display 9p trace
0x08 = display VFS trace
0x10 = display Marshalling debug
0x20 = display RPC debug
wfdno=n the file descriptor for writing with proto=fd
- maxdata=n the number of bytes to use for 9P packet payload (msize)
+ maxdata=n the number of bytes to use for 9p packet payload (msize)
port=n port to connect to on the remote server
- noextend force legacy mode (no 9P2000.u semantics)
+ noextend force legacy mode (no 9p2000.u semantics)
uid attempt to mount as a particular uid
RESOURCES
=========
-The Linux version of the 9P server is now maintained under the npfs project
+The Linux version of the 9p server is now maintained under the npfs project
on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/npfs).
There are user and developer mailing lists available through the v9fs project