Commit 27a2a5ff authored by Eric Van Hensbergen's avatar Eric Van Hensbergen Committed by Eric Van Hensbergen
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9p: update maintainers and documentation 



Updates to the MAINTAINERS file and documentation for 9p to point to the
swik wiki versus the outdated sf.net page.  Also updated some email addresses
and added pointers to papers which better describe the implementation and
application of the Linux 9p client.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
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Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt

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v9fs is a Unix implementation of the Plan 9 9p remote filesystem protocol.



This software was originally developed by Ron Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>

and Maya Gokhale <maya@lanl.gov>.  Additional development by Greg Watson

This software was originally developed by Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov>

and Maya Gokhale.  Additional development by Greg Watson

<gwatson@lanl.gov> and most recently Eric Van Hensbergen

<ericvh@gmail.com>, Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> and Russ Cox

<rsc@swtch.com>.



The best detailed explanation of the Linux implementation and applications of

the 9p client is available in the form of a USENIX paper:

   http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/tech/freenix/hensbergen.html



Other applications are described in the following papers:

	* XCPU & Clustering

		http://www.xcpu.org/xcpu-talk.pdf

	* KVMFS: control file system for KVM

		http://www.xcpu.org/kvmfs.pdf

	* CellFS: A New ProgrammingModel for the Cell BE

		http://www.xcpu.org/cellfs-talk.pdf

	* PROSE I/O: Using 9p to enable Application Partitions

		http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/iwp9/cready/PROSE_iwp9_2006.pdf



USAGE

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and export.



A Linux version of the 9p server is now maintained under the npfs project

on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/npfs).  There is also a

more stable single-threaded version of the server (named spfs) available from

the same CVS repository.

on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/npfs).  The currently

maintained version is the single-threaded version of the server (named spfs)

available from the same CVS repository.



There are user and developer mailing lists available through the v9fs project

on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/v9fs).

MAINTAINERS

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P:	Eric Van Hensbergen

M:	ericvh@gmail.com

P:	Ron Minnich

M:	rminnich@lanl.gov

M:	rminnich@sandia.gov

P:	Latchesar Ionkov

M:	lucho@ionkov.net

L:	v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net

W:	http://v9fs.sf.net

W:	http://swik.net/v9fs

T:	git kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/ericvh/v9fs.git

S:	Maintained

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