Re: [9fans] command line tool for storing / reading files on venti

[Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>]

* Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:

> rfork n forks the name space, so that any changes
> made by the script don't propagate out to the
> parent process.  This means that (1) vacfs can
> mount on /n/vac without any fear of bothering
> some other instance of the script, and (2) when the
> script exits, there will be no more references to
> the mounted /n/vac and the kernel will unmount it.

Aha. But this still does not terminate the vacfs, right ?

> > Meanwhile I've hacked up vacfs to give it an "autodie" mode.
> > It means: automatically terminate if the last file has been
> > closed. Seems to work, but now idea how stable it would be
> > in production ;-o
>
> In the time it took you to do that you could probably
> have written unvac instead.

hmm, maybe ;-o

Meanwhile I've written an new tool which stores single files
(no directory stuff at all). Not perfect yet, but already
works quite fine (IMHO):

svn://nibiru.metux.de/public/plan9port/apps/vtstore/

In the next step, I'll add http-alike metadata (mimetype, etc).


cu
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