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v9fs is a Unix implementation of the Plan 9 9p remote filesystem protocol.
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-This software was originally developed by Ron Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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-and Maya Gokhale <maya@lanl.gov>. Additional development by Greg Watson
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+This software was originally developed by Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov>
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+and Maya Gokhale. Additional development by Greg Watson
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<gwatson@lanl.gov> and most recently Eric Van Hensbergen
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<ericvh@gmail.com>, Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> and Russ Cox
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<rsc@swtch.com>.
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+The best detailed explanation of the Linux implementation and applications of
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+the 9p client is available in the form of a USENIX paper:
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+ http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/tech/freenix/hensbergen.html
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+Other applications are described in the following papers:
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+ * XCPU & Clustering
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+ http://www.xcpu.org/xcpu-talk.pdf
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+ * KVMFS: control file system for KVM
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+ http://www.xcpu.org/kvmfs.pdf
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+ * CellFS: A New ProgrammingModel for the Cell BE
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+ http://www.xcpu.org/cellfs-talk.pdf
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+ * PROSE I/O: Using 9p to enable Application Partitions
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+ http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/iwp9/cready/PROSE_iwp9_2006.pdf
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USAGE
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@@ -90,9 +104,9 @@ subset of the namespace by extending the path: '#U*'/tmp would just export
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and export.
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A Linux version of the 9p server is now maintained under the npfs project
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-on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/npfs). There is also a
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-more stable single-threaded version of the server (named spfs) available from
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-the same CVS repository.
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+on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/npfs). The currently
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+maintained version is the single-threaded version of the server (named spfs)
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+available from the same CVS repository.
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There are user and developer mailing lists available through the v9fs project
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on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/v9fs).
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