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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:17:14 +0100
From: Jens Staal <staal1978@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 9vx instability
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On 11/21/11 12:01, yy wrote:
>> 9vx-hg (checked out 2011.11.17) - cmd line (9vx -r 9front -u glenda)
>> 9front iso image - 9front-1131.664b953bfdde (I've copied it's contents and
>> `chmod -R u+w`ed it)
> If you are using a modern version of 9vx (rminnich's repository at
> bitbucket) you don't need to copy the contents of the iso, you can
> just run 9vx with -r 9front.iso.

That sounds very interesting! I packaged 9vx in AUR (
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49816) and tried to put up a
wiki ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/9vx). I have done some
rather stupid suggestions about how to deal with permissions and other
stuff like that...

What I would like to know is if you can boot a plan9 system from iso via
9vx as "persistent" partition whereas changes are saved to another
directory (so basically setting up a union mount between the iso and a
directory) - alternatively specifying an alternative path for $home
using 9vx booting from an iso.