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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] /dist is empty
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:36:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0eccc927f753f78eeeeece72f142ffe4@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200309161531.h8GFVjj02457@augusta.math.psu.edu>

> Please don't do this.  Use what's already there.
>
> 	9fs batida
> 	bind -c /n/batida /n/inst
> 	mount /srv/9660 /n/dist /path/to/plan9.iso
> 	replica/inst -v /dist/replica/inst

Dan is right.  I'd forgotten this.

> If /dist/replica/inst doesn't exist on your system (it should; it used to
> be on sources, at least) you can try something else.  You don't even really
> need the CD (except to be nice to the labs).  Ostensibly, you could just
> do:
>
> 	mount -c /srv/batida /n/inst
> 	9fs sources
> 	bind /n/sources/plan9 /n/dist
> 	replica/inst -v /dist/replica/inst
>
> I do something like that to update my fileserver from sources all the time.

This is great for updating your file server once it's going.
It's not so great for populating it from scratch -- copying
from a CD will be a lot faster, due to the latency of 9P to
sources.

Russ



  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-16 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-15 16:48 Matthias Teege
2003-09-15 19:10 ` Russ Cox
2003-09-16  8:31   ` Matthias Teege
2003-09-16 13:39     ` Russ Cox
2003-09-16  8:31   ` Matthias Teege
2003-09-16 13:40     ` Russ Cox
2003-09-16 15:31       ` Dan Cross
2003-09-16 15:36         ` Russ Cox [this message]
2003-09-16 23:47           ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-16 17:19         ` Matthias Teege
2003-09-16 18:06           ` Russ Cox
2003-09-16 15:10   ` Dan Cross

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