If you want to solve your problem -- rather than trying to figure out why linux cifs might want to completely emulate windows to a plan9 client -- i'd suggest importing things from linux with sftpfs or running something like u9fs on linux side, etc.
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Ingo Krabbe <ikrabbe....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ingo Krabbe <ikrabbe....@gmail.com> wrote: > > |Hey, > > | > > |I found a quite strange effect with cifs (plan9 bell labs edition). \ > > |I use cifs to mount werc installations from p9p linux servers. \ > > |Cifs is needed here, as the virtual hosted machine does not \ > > |support nfs. Maybe I should switch to another userspace filesystem,\ > > | but for now its cifs. > > > > cifs is Windows, i think. > > If this is the case, then you may run into the issue of implicit > > filenames. Search «aux tale», or browse > > <heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx_aux_c.html>. > > Yes, cifs is used often to mount windows shares, but in this special case > I just chose cifs, as NFS has no current user space server and I want to > share some filesystems of a virtual host, where I can't add kernel modules. > > So actually in my setup I use a Linux CIFS Server (aka. smbd, samba) and > the cifs client from plan9. > > The shared filesystem originally is a ext2 (or 3 or 4). > > Should I really have managed to step over a system design bug that is > imported from 1978 till now, through all systems and versions. > > Actually, mounting the cifs with a linux mount -t cifs command maps the > "aux" filename correctly. So the bug might just have been imported into the > plan9 cifs client. > > Funny bug. > > > [.] > > |Any hints for debugging this might help. > > > > Maybe. > > Ciao > > > > |cheers > > | > > |ingo krabbe > > > > --steffen > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Steffen Daode Nurpmeso <sdao...@gmail.com> > To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> > Cc: > Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 11:39:33 +0200 > Subject: Re: [9fans] cifs fails on nodes named aux > Ingo Krabbe <ikrabbe....@gmail.com> wrote: > |Hey, > | > |I found a quite strange effect with cifs (plan9 bell labs edition). \ > |I use cifs to mount werc installations from p9p linux servers. \ > |Cifs is needed here, as the virtual hosted machine does not \ > |support nfs. Maybe I should switch to another userspace filesystem,\ > | but for now its cifs. > > cifs is Windows, i think. > If this is the case, then you may run into the issue of implicit > filenames. Search «aux tale», or browse > <heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx_aux_c.html>. > > [.] > |Any hints for debugging this might help. > > Maybe. > Ciao > > |cheers > | > |ingo krabbe > > --steffen >
