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@@ -6,12 +6,26 @@ ABOUT | |||
6 | 6 | ||
7 | v9fs is a Unix implementation of the Plan 9 9p remote filesystem protocol. | 7 | v9fs is a Unix implementation of the Plan 9 9p remote filesystem protocol. |
8 | 8 | ||
9 | This software was originally developed by Ron Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> | 9 | This software was originally developed by Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov> |
10 | and Maya Gokhale <maya@lanl.gov>. Additional development by Greg Watson | 10 | and Maya Gokhale. Additional development by Greg Watson |
11 | <gwatson@lanl.gov> and most recently Eric Van Hensbergen | 11 | <gwatson@lanl.gov> and most recently Eric Van Hensbergen |
12 | <ericvh@gmail.com>, Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> and Russ Cox | 12 | <ericvh@gmail.com>, Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> and Russ Cox |
13 | <rsc@swtch.com>. | 13 | <rsc@swtch.com>. |
14 | 14 | ||
15 | The best detailed explanation of the Linux implementation and applications of | ||
16 | the 9p client is available in the form of a USENIX paper: | ||
17 | http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/tech/freenix/hensbergen.html | ||
18 | |||
19 | Other applications are described in the following papers: | ||
20 | * XCPU & Clustering | ||
21 | http://www.xcpu.org/xcpu-talk.pdf | ||
22 | * KVMFS: control file system for KVM | ||
23 | http://www.xcpu.org/kvmfs.pdf | ||
24 | * CellFS: A New ProgrammingModel for the Cell BE | ||
25 | http://www.xcpu.org/cellfs-talk.pdf | ||
26 | * PROSE I/O: Using 9p to enable Application Partitions | ||
27 | http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/iwp9/cready/PROSE_iwp9_2006.pdf | ||
28 | |||
15 | USAGE | 29 | USAGE |
16 | ===== | 30 | ===== |
17 | 31 | ||
@@ -90,9 +104,9 @@ subset of the namespace by extending the path: '#U*'/tmp would just export | |||
90 | and export. | 104 | and export. |
91 | 105 | ||
92 | A Linux version of the 9p server is now maintained under the npfs project | 106 | A Linux version of the 9p server is now maintained under the npfs project |
93 | on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/npfs). There is also a | 107 | on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/npfs). The currently |
94 | more stable single-threaded version of the server (named spfs) available from | 108 | maintained version is the single-threaded version of the server (named spfs) |
95 | the same CVS repository. | 109 | available from the same CVS repository. |
96 | 110 | ||
97 | There are user and developer mailing lists available through the v9fs project | 111 | There are user and developer mailing lists available through the v9fs project |
98 | on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/v9fs). | 112 | on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/v9fs). |