> Also, if you do create a Plan 9 partition and > then prep it to make subpartitions (you'd have > to use 9vx, copying the binaries from sources), > then p9p venti can handle those partition names > too: /dev/sda1:arenas assuming /dev/sda1 is a > Plan 9 fdisk partition containing a subpartition > named arenas.
So here's what I ended up with. I installed 9vx on the machine and used that to partition the big drive: one fairly big partition with 4 subpartitions for the 4 arena disks already on the machine. The p9p mirrorarenas didn't like the partition name notation. It calls initpart which calls parsepart which seems to only like the numeric range notation. But running the Plan 9 mirrorarenas in 9vx works just fine. So I'm pretty much where I want to be for now. Thanks, BLS
