Re: [PATCH] docs/filesystems/9p: fix broken external links

From: Dominique Martinet

Date: Tue May 19 2026 - 08:33:09 EST


Aayush Patil wrote on Sun, May 10, 2026 at 11:58:56PM +0530:
> The xcpu.org links for xcpu-talk, kvmfs, and cellfs-talk are dead
> with no archived snapshots available on the Wayback Machine, so
> remove them. The PROSE I/O link redirects to a dead server; replace
> it with an archived version from web.archive.org.S

(I assume the final S is a typo here)

Eric, it looks like you're the one who added these links, would you
happen to have a copy around if you care about keeping these?
Otherwise I'm not sure of the value of listing the papers without the
actual files available, but I don't mind either way.

I agree dead links are of little value though so will pick this up if
there's no reply in a while

>
> Signed-off-by: Aayush Patil <aayushpatilsch@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/filesystems/9p.rst | 5 +----
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.rst
> index be3504ca034a..65809a1dad21 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.rst
> @@ -23,13 +23,10 @@ the 9p client is available in the form of a USENIX paper:
> Other applications are described in the following papers:
>
> * XCPU & Clustering
> - http://xcpu.org/papers/xcpu-talk.pdf

I found http://mirtchovski.postnix.pw/p9/xcpu-talk.pdf but I'm not sure
if it's the same file

> * KVMFS: control file system for KVM
> - http://xcpu.org/papers/kvmfs.pdf

Looks close but perhaps not the same as
https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2007/ols2007v2-pages-59-64.pdf ?

> * CellFS: A New Programming Model for the Cell BE
> - http://xcpu.org/papers/cellfs-talk.pdf

Couldn't find anything fo this one

> * PROSE I/O: Using 9p to enable Application Partitions
> - http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/iwp9/cready/PROSE_iwp9_2006.pdf
> + http://web.archive.org/web/20110101152020/http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/iwp9/cready/PROSE_iwp9_2006.pdf
> * VirtFS: A Virtualization Aware File System pass-through
> https://kernel.org/doc/ols/2010/ols2010-pages-109-120.pdf
>

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