11:19:13 <nomad> yay, powerloss
21:45:38 <toasterson> Quick question, what 9pfs clients do we have?
21:48:12 <richlowe> who's "we"?
21:48:36 <richlowe> I was pretty sure OI had some, I don't think illumos does
21:48:43 <richlowe> I don't know about omnios
21:49:05 <richlowe> sometimes I think of implementing fs/9p but then I feel better
21:54:05 <toasterson> it looks like oi has at least the virtio transport driver. but trying to mount the filesystem gets me mount -F 9p repo /mnt/repo
21:54:07 <toasterson> mount: Operation not applicable to FSType 9p
21:55:03 <toasterson> So I am wondering if there is a 9pfs driver needed or if that virtio9p driver is also the fs driver
21:55:25 <toasterson> and it seems to come from illumos-gate hence the we as in all of illumos.
22:03:51 <jbk> there is lib9p that's used by bhyve to act more or less like a 9p server
22:04:02 <jbk> to implement the host bits for virtio9p
22:04:29 <jbk> it's been too long now that I can't recall if it could be used as a client
22:04:50 <jbk> though there'd be some other bits needed for guest support in illumos
22:05:15 <richlowe> right, you'd have to implement fs/9p (and/or have fuse)
22:05:32 <richlowe> using fuse to implement 9p sounds like a bad idea
22:06:05 <jbk> oh.. there is a kernel driver for vio9p (either missed or forgot about that)...
22:06:19 <richlowe> but if you did do that, plan9 users would be able to mount their text editor, so that's nice
22:07:40 <toasterson> Would that even run on illumos being a plan9 binary and all?
22:07:56 <richlowe> no
22:08:24 <toasterson> And yes that vio9p driver is what I found aswell. it get's me a device under /dev/9p/0
22:08:39 <toasterson> Well then they can at least mount their editor :)
22:14:22 <jbk> presumably there still needs to be a driver (likely under usr/src/uts/common/fs) to utilize the device in order to mount it
22:15:14 <jbk> though it seems possible a userland client could use it to access files as well (e.g. like ftp or sftp)
22:19:20 <toasterson> I remember talking to dansup about something 9pfs related but that was long ago.
22:19:50 <toasterson> nope wrong dan
22:33:29 <toasterson> Ah, found 9pfuse :) https://github.com/9fans/plan9port/tree/master
22:33:42 <toasterson> And my old issue with dancross
22:34:12 <toasterson> I think i give that a go tomorrow. I thought we had a package of that but maybe it got broken
22:34:21 <toasterson> this time we is openindiana :)
23:03:18 <jclulow_> toasterson: The vio9p stuff is there to expose the 9P transport with the host
23:03:25 <jclulow_> It does not, itself, do any file system stuff
23:04:37 <jclulow> I started on p9fs a few years ago but it's a lot of shenanigans: https://github.com/jclulow/illumos-gate/tree/virtfs/usr/src/uts/common/fs/p9fs
23:05:41 <jclulow> We use a Rust program to fish files out of the virtio thing into a directory, I believe, for some things: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/p9fs
23:05:51 <jclulow> It's not a file system driver, more like scp(1)