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From: "Roman V. Shaposhnik" <rvs@sun.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Quick question on fossil
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:03:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1231898624.15698.95.camel@goose.sun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dd6fe68a0901121106h79474132ra2b461d8389ab259@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 11:06 -0800, Russ Cox wrote:
> Super.active is the block number of a VtDirType block:
> a block containing a few (I think 3) VtEntry structs.

Turns out there's one extra level of indirection there,
but your response was exactly what I needed to get
me unstuck. Thanks!

>   cd /sys/src/cmd/fossil
>   mk 8.view
>   8.view /dev/sdC0/fossil
>
> you should get a graphical file system data structure
> browser, though since it is not part of the default
> build it may not need some work to make
> it build again.

Wow! Thanks a bunch for mentioning that. It builds and
works flawlessly. What a treat!

Thanks,
Roman.




      reply	other threads:[~2009-01-14  2:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-12 18:13 Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-12 19:06 ` Russ Cox
2009-01-14  2:03   ` Roman V. Shaposhnik [this message]

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