On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 18:48 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > >> > Although in the alternative universe I can see how implementing #X > >> > as *channels* capable of 9P messages, could enable things like mounting > >> > them on external hosts and letting these hosts manipulate physical > >> > devices attached to yours (I agree that remote mounting of the kernel > >> > services, which do not correspond to physical devices, is less useful). > >> > Just like exporting my *local* /srv can be a useful things at times. > >> > >> you mean like this? > >> import -E ssl minooka.coraid.com '#æ' /n/minookaæ > > > > Well, I tend not to like the proliferation of exportfs', but may > > be in this case it is actually better that what I had in mind. > > why?
Multiplexing. If devices exposed channel interface, and got exported there would be no kernel protecting from clients sending random sequences of 9P messages (on a single host you can't mount a channel and then continue reading/writing 9P messages over it). So the way devices are right now, actually seems to be better compared to what I have in mind. Sorry for the noise. Thanks, Roman.
