7 v9fs is a Unix implementation of the Plan 9 9p remote filesystem protocol.
9 This software was originally developed by Ron Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
10 and Maya Gokhale <maya@lanl.gov>. Additional development by Greg Watson
11 <gwatson@lanl.gov> and most recently Eric Van Hensbergen
12 <ericvh@gmail.com> and Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>.
17 For remote file server:
19 mount -t 9P 10.10.1.2 /mnt/9
21 For Plan 9 From User Space applications (http://swtch.com/plan9)
23 mount -t 9P `namespace`/acme /mnt/9 -o proto=unix,name=$USER
28 proto=name select an alternative transport. Valid options are
30 unix - specifying a named pipe mount point
31 tcp - specifying a normal TCP/IP connection
32 fd - used passed file descriptors for connection
35 name=name user name to attempt mount as on the remote server. The
36 server may override or ignore this value. Certain user
37 names may require authentication.
39 aname=name aname specifies the file tree to access when the server is
40 offering several exported file systems.
42 debug=n specifies debug level. The debug level is a bitmask.
43 0x01 = display verbose error messages
44 0x02 = developer debug (DEBUG_CURRENT)
45 0x04 = display 9P trace
46 0x08 = display VFS trace
47 0x10 = display Marshalling debug
48 0x20 = display RPC debug
49 0x40 = display transport debug
50 0x80 = display allocation debug
52 rfdno=n the file descriptor for reading with proto=fd
54 wfdno=n the file descriptor for writing with proto=fd
56 maxdata=n the number of bytes to use for 9P packet payload (msize)
58 port=n port to connect to on the remote server
60 noextend force legacy mode (no 9P2000.u semantics)
62 uid attempt to mount as a particular uid
64 gid attempt to mount with a particular gid
66 afid security channel - used by Plan 9 authentication protocols
68 nodevmap do not map special files - represent them as normal files.
69 This can be used to share devices/named pipes/sockets between
70 hosts. This functionality will be expanded in later versions.
75 The Linux version of the 9P server is now maintained under the npfs project
76 on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/npfs).
78 There are user and developer mailing lists available through the v9fs project
79 on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/v9fs).
81 News and other information is maintained on SWiK (http://swik.net/v9fs).
83 Bug reports may be issued through the kernel.org bugzilla
84 (http://bugzilla.kernel.org)
86 For more information on the Plan 9 Operating System check out
87 http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9
89 For information on Plan 9 from User Space (Plan 9 applications and libraries
90 ported to Linux/BSD/OSX/etc) check out http://swtch.com/plan9
96 The 2.6 kernel support is working on PPC and x86.
98 PLEASE USE THE SOURCEFORGE BUG-TRACKER TO REPORT PROBLEMS.