On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Tim Newsham<news...@lava.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Jul 2009, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote:
>>
>> Hmmm, that's really new behavior-- never used to fail without mount
>> helper. Can you give the exact error message?
>
>  # strace -o trace.txt mount -t 9p thenewsh.com /mnt

Linux doesn't do resolution for you, you have to give raw ip
addresses. Maybe not the problem, but worth pointing out.

>  mount: Protocol not supported
>
> Trace.txt is attached with full details.
>
> I've tried several variants, such as thenewsh.com:/path
> with similar results.
>
>> On Jul 11, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Tim Newsham <news...@lava.net> wrote:
>>
>>> The documentation in the linux kernel says you merely
>>>
>>>  mount -t 9p ipaddress /mntpoint
>>>
>>> this fails on my system since /sbin/mount tries to execute /sbin/mount.9p
>>> and fails.  Am I supposed to have an /sbin/mount.9p? (Anyone know which
>>> ubunutu package should have this?  If not, where I might find sources?
>>> Ironic since Ubuntu came with the 9p kernel module)  Or should I be using a
>>> different mount program for the purpose?
>>>
>>> The linux Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt should probably be updated
>>> with more details, either way.
>>>
>>> Tim Newsham
>>> http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/
>>>
>>
>
> Tim Newsham
> http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/

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