EXPORTFS(4)                                           EXPORTFS(4)

     NAME
          exportfs, srvfs - network file server plumbing

     SYNOPSIS
          exportfs [ options ]

          srvfs [ -dR ] [ -p perm ] [ -P patternfile ] [ -e exportprog
          ] name path

     DESCRIPTION
          Exportfs is a user level file server that allows Plan 9 com-
          pute 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 pro-
          cess.  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 appearance of exporting a name space from a
          remote machine into a local file tree.

          The options are:

          -A address  Use the network address to announce aan(8) con-
                      nections, if requested by the initial protocol.

          -a          Authenticate the user with the p9any protocol
                      before running the regular exportfs session;
                      used when exportfs is invoked to handle an
                      incoming network connection.  Exportfs creates a
                      new name space for each connection, using
                      /lib/namespace by default (see namespace(6)).

          -B address  Dial address, authenticate as a p9any client,
                      and then serve that network connection.
                      Requires setting the root of the name space with
                      -r or -s.  The remote system should run import
                      -B to handle the call.  See import(4) for an
                      example.

          -d -f dbgfile
                      Log all 9P traffic to dbgfile (default
                      /tmp/exportdb).

          -e 'enc auth'
                      Set the encryption and authentication algorithms
                      to use for encrypting the wire traffic (see
                      ssl(3)). The defaults are rc4_256 and sha1.

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          -m msize    Set the maximum message size that exportfs
                      should offer to send (see version(5)); this
                      helps tunneled 9P connections to avoid unneces-
                      sary fragmentation.

          -N nsfile   Serve the name space described by nsfile.

          -n          Disallow mounts by user none.

          -P patternfile
                      Restrict the set of exported files.  Patternfile
                      contains one regular expression per line, to be
                      matched against path names relative to the cur-
                      rent working directory and starting with /.  For
                      a file to be exported, all lines with a prefix +
                      must match and all those with prefix - must not
                      match.

          -R          Make the served name space read only.

          -r root     Bypass the initial protocol, serving the name
                      space rooted at root.

          -S service  bypass the initial protocol, serving the result
                      of mounting service. A separate mount is used
                      for each attach(5) message, to correctly handle
                      servers in which each mount corresponds to a
                      different client e.g.,( rio(4)).

          -s          equivalent to -r /; kept for compatibility.

          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.

          Because the kernel disallows reads and writes on mounted
          pipes (as might be found in /srv), exportfs calls itself
          (with appropriate -m and -S options) to simulate reads and
          writes on such files.

          Srvfs invokes exportprog (default /bin/exportfs) to create a
          mountable file system from a name space and posts it at
          /srv/name, which is created with mode perm (default 0600).
          The name space is the directory tree rooted at path. The -d,
          -P, and -R options, if present, are relayed to exportprog.

     EXAMPLES
          To export the archive of one user for one month, except for
          secrets,

               cd /n/dump

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               echo '+ ^/(2003(/10..(/usr(/glenda/?)?)?)?)?' > /tmp/pattern
               echo '- \.(aes|pgp)$' >> /tmp/pattern
               exportfs -P /tmp/pattern

          Use srvfs to enable mounting of an FTP file system (see
          ftpfs(4)) in several windows, or to publish a /proc (see
          proc(3)) with a broken process so a remote person may debug
          the program:

               srvfs ftp /n/ftp
               srvfs broke /mnt/term/proc

          Use srvfs to obtain a copy of a service to be manipulated
          directly by a user program like nfsserver(8):

               srvfs nfs.boot /srv/boot
               aux/nfsserver -f /srv/nfs.boot

          Use srvfs to spy on all accesses to a particular subtree:

               srvfs -d spy /
               tail -f /tmp/exportdb &
               mount /srv/spy /n/spy
               cd /n/spy; ls

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

     SEE ALSO
          dial(2), import(4), aan(8), listen(8)

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