On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 07:47:49AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > 6) [Not necessary for bootstrapping] So that 5) remains true, the 9load
> > file must be tagged SYSTEM, so that it is not moved when updating.
>
> i originally read this incorrectly as from the prespective of dossrv(4);
> in that case one would say ...
>
> from the perspective of dossrv(4), the exclusive use flag tells dossrv
> to try to keep the program contiguous on disk. moving it around is
> ok.
I'm not a DOS FS specialist but I would be cautious about this because
there may be some binaries that expect not only a file to be a
contiguous series of blocks, but to start precisely _here_.
>
> > 3) The PBS [on an iso] has to bootstrap a diskette, so is not an LBA aware
> > one. On a
> > disk, the Plan9 partition can be a far, far, far, far realm...
>
> thanks to geoff's recent work, this isn't true anymore. see mk9660(8)
> and the -B flag. i have no idea what *bsd tools would want to support this.
Thanks, I will read the manpage and update the document when necessary.
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