v9fs-userspace
Three
basic
userspace
components
to
improve
v9fs
usability
under
Linux.
MOUNT HELPER
- hueristic for determining transport type
- DNS support for resolving hostname <->ip address
- ssh-based tunneling support (will require server work as well)
- man pages
- debian packaging
- rpm packaging
- (stretch) authentication support (w/p9p)
- (stretch) integration with idmap solution
SERVER
- based on spfs/npfs
- allow for multiple exports w/anames and specification of root directory
- man pages
- debian packaging
- rpm packaging
- (stretch) authentication support (w/p9p)
- (stretch) integration with idmap solution
IDMAP
- maps local uids/gids/error-codes to strings
- userspace daemon to provide mapping
- hooks in v9fs to use mapping
- (stretch) synthetic file server approach to update mappings
