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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: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:59:45 +0000
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 9vx
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> 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."

Well, unless I'm missing something either obvious
or clever, the answer is no.  A Linux special file
looks like a zero length regular file to 9vx.  I
probably should have expected that.

I guess I'll sleep on the question of whether to just
use regular files or do something like a driver to
go with devsd.

BLS