From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <02ae01c43942$fb80bf00$127e7d50@SOMA> From: "boyd, rounin" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <4768.199.98.16.94.1084479946.squirrel@wish> <1467.199.98.16.94.1084488679.squirrel@wish> Subject: Re: [9fans] disk/^(mbr format fdisk prep) Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 01:35:26 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7a3f12b8-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > Then what would the leveler look like, boyd? I'm guessing some file whose > offsets point to different parts of the flash, depending on use, which > can't easily be done under anything but p9. is that it? it's late etc, but fossil it an example of an interface between 9p and something [venti] that only knows about blobs. it depends on the media, but it should look like a raw disk. if you want to tweak its lifetime or performance then you have a meta-data chunk [partition] to explain its layout -- whatever. a user mode f/s can do what it likes, but the underlying media should look like a raw disk. all this is well understood. even the MD is a f/s.