Our 2.6 kernel support appears to be stabilized and we'd like to pursue its integration into the official kernel tree. Release RC1 contains a number of fixes and cleanups from the previous announcement: (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=110969229112118&w=2). We are now reasonably happy with the code, but acknowledge that there are plenty areas to enhance and cleanup.
I would again like to solicit the participation of the Linux File Systems Developer community in helping us prepare our code-base for presentation to the larger Linux community. We would appreciate any review, comments, critiques, and additions from this community and are actively seeking people to join our project and help us produce something that would be acceptable and useful to the Linux community. We didn't get many responses from our last request, I'm hoping now that things are a bit further along, more folks will be at least willing to take a look at (and take some pot-shots at) v9fs. The plan is to attempt to address all major critiques and release RC2 to a wider audience (the LKML at large) in the next few weeks. The source code is available in a few different forms: tarballs: http://v9fs.sf.net CVSweb: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/v9fs/linux-9p/ CVS: :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/v9fs/linux-9p BitKeeper: bk://linux-v9fs.bkbits.net The user-level server is available from either the Plan 9 distribution or from http://v9fs.sf.net Other support applications are still being developed, but preliminary versions can be downloaded from sourceforge. Documentation on the protocol has historically been the Plan 9 Man pages (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/man/5/INDEX.html), but there is an effort under way to write a more complete Internet-Draft style specification (http://v9fs.sf.net/rfc). There are a couple of mailing lists supporting v9fs, but the most used is [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- please direct/cc your comments there so the other v9fs contributors can participate in the conversation. There is also an IRC channel: irc://freenode.net/#v9fs Thanks for your time in reading this message, I look forward to hearing from all of you -- we are well aware that there is much work to do, but I hope that with your help we can produce something that everyone finds useful and valuable. -Eric Van Hensbergen V9FS Project - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
