namespace(6) [plan9 man page]

NAMESPACE(6)							   Games Manual 						      NAMESPACE(6)

NAME

       namespace - name space description file

DESCRIPTION

       Namespace  files describe how to construct a name space from scratch, an operation normally performed by the newns subroutine (see auth(2))
       which is typically called by init(8).  Each line specifies one name space operation.  Spaces and tabs separate arguments to operations;	no
       quotes or escapes are recognized.  Blank lines and lines with # as the first non-space character are ignored.  Environment variables of the
       form $name are expanded within arguments, where name is a UTF string terminated by white space, a /, or a $.

       The known operations and their arguments are:

       mount [-abc] servename old [spec]
	      Mount servename on old.

       bind [-abc]  new old
	      Bind new on old.

       import [-abc] host "[remotepath]mountpoint
	      Import remotepath from machine server and attach it to mountpoint.

       cd dir Change the working directory to dir.

       The options for bind, mount, and import are interpreted as in bind(1) and import(4).

SEE ALSO

       bind(1), namespace(4), init(8)

																      NAMESPACE(6)

EXPORTFS(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual						       EXPORTFS(4)

NAME

       exportfs, srvfs - network file server plumbing

SYNOPSIS

       exportfs [ -an ] [ -c ctlfile ]

       srvfs name dir

DESCRIPTION

       Exportfs  is  a	user  level  file  server that allows Plan 9 compute servers, rather than file servers, to export portions of a name space
       across networks.  The service is started either by the cpu(1) command or by a network listener process.	An initial protocol establishes  a
       root  directory	for the exported name space.  The connection to exportfs is then mounted, typically on /mnt/term.  Exportfs then acts as a
       relay file server: operations in the imported file tree are executed on the remote server and the results returned.  This gives the appear-
       ance of exporting a name space from a remote machine into a local file tree.

       The -a option instructs exportfs to authenticate the user, usually because it is being invoked from a remote machine.

       The -n option disallows export to user none.

       The  -c options specifies a network control file onto which exportfs will push the fcall line discipline.  This option is intended for net-
       works that do not preserve read/write boundaries.

       The cpu command uses exportfs to serve device files in the terminal.  The import(4) command calls exportfs on a remote machine,	permitting
       users to access arbitrary pieces of name space on other systems.

       Srvfs  uses  exportfs to create a mountable file system from a name space: a subsequent mount (see bind(1)) of /srv/name will reproduce the
       name space rooted at dir.  One might use srvfs to enable mounting of an FTP file system (see ftpfs(4)) in several windows.

SOURCE

       /sys/src/cmd/exportfs
       /sys/src/cmd/srvfs.c

																       EXPORTFS(4)