From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] ideas for a new install procedure
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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 18:20:11 -0500
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the root file servers are all aliased as kfs so that /boot
(see /sys/src/9/boot) can just exec /kfs.  they used to be
called /fs, but then we kept killing it after upas/fs came
along.  that was bad.

to be a root file system server, you have to accept the -f and -s
flags that dossrv, 9660srv, kfs, etc. all do.

vdfs is like bzfs and gzfs but used vdsqueeze, a compression
program that we don't have the rights to distribute.
(at&t does, though, and it's in david korn's big unix tools kit.)

russ