From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: smiley@zenzebra.mv.com To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <81c92a8342f74040cbdf11041c77e511@quintile.net> <86hbcrfawn.fsf@cmarib.ramside> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 06:22:32 +0000 In-Reply-To: (John Floren's message of "Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:07:56 -0800") Message-ID: <86ei7ss28n.fsf@cmarib.ramside> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: [9fans] HELP: recoving important header file rudely clobbered by mk Topicbox-Message-UUID: a5bf4fbc-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 John Floren writes: > I've continually meant to write some sort of beginners-level summary > of the system including things like Fossil and Venti, but the > magnitude of the task is daunting. I may try to do a more clear > description of how the filesystems work together in the near future. I've been writing a guide to Plan 9 for UNIX users, hilighting the differences between Plan 9 and UNIX needed to get UNIX users up to speed on Plan 9. I shudder to think how much work it would take to write a guide for complete newbies (without a UNIX background). A description how the filesystems interact would be awesome! As far as system administration goes, this appears to be one of the areas in which the difference P9 and UNIX is most confusing. -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ |E-Mail: smiley@zenzebra.mv.com PGP key ID: BC549F8B| |Fingerprint: 9329 DB4A 30F5 6EDA D2BA 3489 DAB7 555A BC54 9F8B| +---------------------------------------------------------------+