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From: Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] An announcement and a question
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:01:54 -0700

On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 19:09 -0400, a@9sr... wrote:
> // ...is there a piece of software already available
> // that would act like an adapter between NFS
> // clients and 9P servers...
> 
> nfsserver(8) might work for you: it'll grab a 9p server
> and export it over nfs, allowing clients with no "special"
> software to mount it. it used to do auth, but it was a
> hack (as all nfs auth must be), so was removed; now it
> just treats everyone as none, if i remember right.

Perfect! That sounds like exactly the right place for me
to start looking. And thanks for setting me straight: somehow
I have always thought that nfsserver(8) was implemented 
using open/read/write/etc. but now I see that it really
does generate 9P messages.

Thanks,
Roman.