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From: "Brian L. Stuart" <blstuart@bellsouth.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:29:43 +0000
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 9vx
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> So i realized I'm being foolish w.r.t my comments on "i want my venti"
>
> in the 9vx directory
> dd if=/dev/zero of=arenas bs=1048576 count=whatever
>
> do for index and bloom
> follow venti instructions.
>
> voila. Venti. Rinse and repeat for fossil.

I haven't tried this yet, but is there any reason you
couldn't put block special files for disk partitions
in the 9vx directory and put the arenas, etc there,
assuming of course all the permissions were set right?
I'll probably give it a try later tonight unless someone
yells "Stop! You'll poke out your eye^W partition table."

> oh man I love this 9vx.
>
> Time for tvx -- tiny vx -- no need for the H any more, as that stood
> for horrible :-)

This is seriously cool.  I'm enough of a geezer that not
too much excites me anymore.  But today, I had fun reading
the USENIX paper and thinking about how to use this.

BLS