nope. paqfs doesnt exit. and its not wasting 10mb. term% ps -a | grep paq cinap_lenrek 5 0:00 0:00 188K Pread paqfs
yes, bootrc basicly does the same stuff as the c based /boot/boot did before. we found that the other 30 odd programs can come in handy. especially when you try to boot a kernel on a odd machines where theres no working disks (yet :-)). the odd machines tend to be owned by people new to plan9 and being short of patience for getting a pxe setup or attach serial cables to the machine. but asking them to break into rc and getting some readout of some ctl files works fine. ipconfig *is* part of bootfs.paq. term% ls -l /boot --r-xr-xr-x / 0 cinap_lenrek cinap_lenrek 29306 Aug 16 10:57 /boot/boot --r-xr-xr-x / 0 cinap_lenrek cinap_lenrek 1327174 Aug 16 10:57 /boot/bootfs.paq --r-xr-xr-x / 0 cinap_lenrek cinap_lenrek 241755 Aug 16 10:57 /boot/factotum --r-xr-xr-x / 0 cinap_lenrek cinap_lenrek 72165 Aug 16 10:57 /boot/paqfs factotum is not build into the paq because libauth's auth_getkeys() execs "/boot/factotum" to ask for passwords/keys. changing that would break old binaries. -- cinap
