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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt index bbd8b28c13de..cda6905cbe49 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt @@ -6,12 +6,26 @@ ABOUT v9fs is a Unix implementation of the Plan 9 9p remote filesystem protocol. -This software was originally developed by Ron Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> -and Maya Gokhale <maya@lanl.gov>. Additional development by Greg Watson +This software was originally developed by Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov> +and Maya Gokhale. Additional development by Greg Watson <gwatson@lanl.gov> and most recently Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>, Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> and Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>. +The best detailed explanation of the Linux implementation and applications of +the 9p client is available in the form of a USENIX paper: + http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/tech/freenix/hensbergen.html + +Other applications are described in the following papers: + * XCPU & Clustering + http://www.xcpu.org/xcpu-talk.pdf + * KVMFS: control file system for KVM + http://www.xcpu.org/kvmfs.pdf + * CellFS: A New ProgrammingModel for the Cell BE + http://www.xcpu.org/cellfs-talk.pdf + * PROSE I/O: Using 9p to enable Application Partitions + http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/iwp9/cready/PROSE_iwp9_2006.pdf + USAGE ===== @@ -90,9 +104,9 @@ subset of the namespace by extending the path: '#U*'/tmp would just export and export. A Linux version of the 9p server is now maintained under the npfs project -on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/npfs). There is also a -more stable single-threaded version of the server (named spfs) available from -the same CVS repository. +on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/npfs). The currently +maintained version is the single-threaded version of the server (named spfs) +available from the same CVS repository. There are user and developer mailing lists available through the v9fs project on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/v9fs). |