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From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchovski@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Fossil on devfs
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 06:55:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14ec7b180511260555r4e2ab580m74b09ec3d56f0612@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ece7638b742808bc3f9d62060761d2a7@voidness.de>

> What's the point of having /dev/fs/nvram?  To be more specific: I do
> see the point of having to copies of the nvram partition.  But out of
> curiosity: where do you reference /dev/fs/nvram when using the system?
>

my thinking was that i may need to update a password and didn't want
the disks to be out of sync. that hasn't happened yet in the three
years that i've had this setup...

> Isn't /dev/sdC0/9fat worth to be mirrored with devfs?
>

i don't remember why i didn't have it there. it would require a change
to 9fat: or a new script to mount 9fat from /dev/fs. i simply did a
'dd' from one disk to the other every time i updated a kernel.


  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-26 13:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-22 19:27 Heiko Dudzus
2005-11-22 19:37 ` Christoph Lohmann
2005-11-22 20:23   ` Russ Cox
2005-11-22 19:37 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-11-26 13:30   ` Heiko Dudzus
2005-11-26 13:55     ` andrey mirtchovski [this message]
2005-11-26 14:34       ` Christoph Lohmann
2005-11-26 14:42         ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-11-26 17:55       ` Heiko Dudzus
2005-11-27  0:54         ` Russ Cox
2005-11-27  0:55           ` Russ Cox
2006-02-02 20:51 ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2006-02-02 23:20   ` Steve Simon
2006-02-03  0:18     ` Micah Stetson
2006-02-03  9:10       ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2006-02-03 18:21         ` Heiko Dudzus
2006-02-04 15:28           ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2006-02-04 12:25         ` Steve Simon

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