[9fans] /n

[9fans] /n

[erik quanstrom]

why do files in /n exist on the distributed image?
when would they be necessary?

- erik

Re: [9fans] /n

[Russ Cox]

> why do files in /n exist on the distributed image?
> when would they be necessary?

mntgen appeared on the scene relatively late.
there was a time when you just ran mkdir a lot in /n.
looking through the archives, it looks like nemo
came up with the idea as "autodirfs" in 2002.

before i poked through the archives, i would have
credited dan cross with the idea.  is dan still on this list?

russ

Re: [9fans] /n

[erik quanstrom]

> mntgen appeared on the scene relatively late.
> there was a time when you just ran mkdir a lot in /n.
> looking through the archives, it looks like nemo
> came up with the idea as "autodirfs" in 2002.
>
> before i poked through the archives, i would have
> credited dan cross with the idea.  is dan still on this list?
>
> russ

many thanks for the historical perspective.
mntgen is an excellent bit of polish.

- erik

Re: [9fans] /n

[Bruce Ellis]

where is dan? he's a fine man.

brucee

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
>> why do files in /n exist on the distributed image?
>> when would they be necessary?
>
> mntgen appeared on the scene relatively late.
> there was a time when you just ran mkdir a lot in /n.
> looking through the archives, it looks like nemo
> came up with the idea as "autodirfs" in 2002.
>
> before i poked through the archives, i would have
> credited dan cross with the idea.  is dan still on this list?
>
> russ
>
>
>

Re: [9fans] /n

[roger peppe]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:00 AM, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> mntgen appeared on the scene relatively late.
> there was a time when you just ran mkdir a lot in /n.
> looking through the archives, it looks like nemo
> came up with the idea as "autodirfs" in 2002.

pardon me for the correction, but i believe the original
idea (and implementation, under inferno) was mine.

http://9fans.net/archive/2002/07/327

  rog.

Re: [9fans] /n

[Francisco J Ballesteros]

I honestly don´t remember, but according to our dump, it seems that
autofs, then autodirfs, then mntgen was added on Jul 16th, 2002 to our dump.

Looking at Rog´s mail, (Jul 15th) I think that probably I did read his
idea on the list
and implemented it for Plan 9.

A nice thing of Plan 9 is that it is so versatile that many changes made
to the system just seem to fit as if they were there all the time :)

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:54 AM, roger peppe <rogpeppe@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:00 AM, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
>> mntgen appeared on the scene relatively late.
>> there was a time when you just ran mkdir a lot in /n.
>> looking through the archives, it looks like nemo
>> came up with the idea as "autodirfs" in 2002.
>
> pardon me for the correction, but i believe the original
> idea (and implementation, under inferno) was mine.
>
> http://9fans.net/archive/2002/07/327
>
>  rog.
>
>

Re: [9fans] /n

[Russ Cox]

> pardon me for the correction, but i believe the original
> idea (and implementation, under inferno) was mine.
>
> http://9fans.net/archive/2002/07/327

i stand corrected.  (and we'd already established my
memory of the event was faulty. ☺)

Re: [9fans] /n

[Dan Cross]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> before i poked through the archives, i would have
> credited dan cross with the idea.  is dan still on this list?

Dan is still on the list, but has been kept very, very busy by the US
Marine Corps lately.  Semper Fidelis (Plan 9),

        - Dan C.