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Eikon 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: What is Plan 9?

ZeroFS [0] is very thankful for what it brought to Linux with the v9fs [1] subsystem which is very nice to work with (network native) compared to fuse :)

[0] https://github.com/Barre/ZeroFS

[1] https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/9p.html

watersb 5 months ago [–]

I believe that the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL, really a Linux subsystem on Windows) uses the Plan 9 network protocol, 9p, to expose the host Windows filesystem to the Linux virtual environment.

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