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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [V9fs-developer] Breaking out virtfs as
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To: Venkateswararao Jujjuri <jvrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>, v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 04/12/2011 09:34 AM, Venkateswararao Jujjuri wrote:
> On 04/11/2011 10:52 PM, Rob Landley wrote:
>> On 04/11/2011 03:28 PM, Venkateswararao Jujjuri wrote:
>>> On 04/11/2011 06:42 AM, Rob Landley wrote:
>>>> Right now, there's no decent userspace server for the 9p filesystem that
>>>> I can find.  (In part because the 9P2000.L spec is an undocumented work
>>>> in progress.)
>>> This statement is true for 9P2000.L protocol;
>> According to my research on the topic, anyway:
>>
>>    http://landley.livejournal.com/48698.html
> 
> You wrote " And at the moment write support seems to be broken for me. 
> But I was able to mount a directory from the host system and cat a file, 
> which is progress."
> 
> Can you please explain where it is broken. IT should be working good.

That's an old blog entry, we already dealt with that a while back:

  http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=26950979

What I hadn't found was a better server, until the new diod release.
(Hence my interest in possibly getting the code in qemu factored out and
more flexible.)

Rob