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6 6
7v9fs is a Unix implementation of the Plan 9 9p remote filesystem protocol. 7v9fs is a Unix implementation of the Plan 9 9p remote filesystem protocol.
8 8
9This software was originally developed by Ron Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> 9This software was originally developed by Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov>
10and Maya Gokhale <maya@lanl.gov>. Additional development by Greg Watson 10and 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
15The best detailed explanation of the Linux implementation and applications of
16the 9p client is available in the form of a USENIX paper:
17 http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/tech/freenix/hensbergen.html
18
19Other 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
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15USAGE 29USAGE
16===== 30=====
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@@ -90,9 +104,9 @@ subset of the namespace by extending the path: '#U*'/tmp would just export
90and export. 104and export.
91 105
92A Linux version of the 9p server is now maintained under the npfs project 106A Linux version of the 9p server is now maintained under the npfs project
93on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/npfs). There is also a 107on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/npfs). The currently
94more stable single-threaded version of the server (named spfs) available from 108maintained version is the single-threaded version of the server (named spfs)
95the same CVS repository. 109available from the same CVS repository.
96 110
97There are user and developer mailing lists available through the v9fs project 111There are user and developer mailing lists available through the v9fs project
98on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/v9fs). 112on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/v9fs).