I just did this and bumped my head a couple times. I just wrote a wiki entry on it. There may or may not be duplicated information between that and the Configuring Venti section, but I didn't read the former, and I think my version is probably more fun to read anyway.
http://cm.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Configuring_file-backed_Venti_stores/index.html Hope that helps somebody. --dho
