Nice work! I think this is great! Thanks for your efforts. On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 15:05, Iruata Souza<[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Steve Simon<[email protected]> wrote: >> 9fat is also a pain in that the 9load file must be created with, >> and retain its append only file, which has a special meaning to 9fat >> telling it to create the file in sequential blocks. >> >> This could (and has) caused problems if you access the 9fat partition >> from os's other than plan9. >> >> The only times I have had to change plan9.ini from somthing else >> than the booted system (because I have broken the boot process) >> I booted the plan9 live cdrom. >> >> I would be happy if 9load and 9fat disappeared and it was >> replaced with a plan9 bootstrap kernel and (say) an rc(1) script. >> > > that's just what 9null is: new pbs, 9pcload (bootstrap kernel), > /boot/boot using rc(1) scripts. > instead of a 'root from' you may get a 'kernel is at' prompt to which > you can ask for a shell (!rc) > > iru > >
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