diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt | 20 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt index 43b89c214d20..4d075a4558f9 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt @@ -73,8 +73,22 @@ OPTIONS RESOURCES ========= -The Linux version of the 9p server is now maintained under the npfs project -on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/npfs). +Our current recommendation is to use Inferno (http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno) +as the 9p server. You can start a 9p server under Inferno by issuing the +following command: + ; styxlisten -A tcp!*!564 export '#U*' + +The -A specifies an unauthenticated export. The 564 is the port # (you may +have to choose a higher port number if running as a normal user). The '#U*' +specifies exporting the root of the Linux name space. You may specify a +subset of the namespace by extending the path: '#U*'/tmp would just export +/tmp. For more information, see the Inferno manual pages covering styxlisten +and export. + +A Linux version of the 9p server is now maintained under the npfs project +on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/npfs). There is also a +more stable single-threaded version of the server (named spfs) available from +the same CVS repository. There are user and developer mailing lists available through the v9fs project on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/v9fs). @@ -96,5 +110,5 @@ STATUS The 2.6 kernel support is working on PPC and x86. -PLEASE USE THE SOURCEFORGE BUG-TRACKER TO REPORT PROBLEMS. +PLEASE USE THE KERNEL BUGZILLA TO REPORT PROBLEMS. (http://bugzilla.kernel.org) |