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From: steve <steve@quintile.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] /tmp dissappearance
Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 21:34:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C3F9021A-83C4-431F-AC83-5458C64542BA@quintile.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <37EF8425-F607-4662-B628-A46C0D5AF2E8@9srv.net>

a simpler way might be to:

    mount -c /srv/fossil /n/fossil
    mkdir /n/fossil/tmp

always assuming you are using fossil and you have write permission in /
which probably means you must be hostowner.

-Steve


On 20 May 2012, at 07:04 PM, Anthony Sorace <a@9srv.net> wrote:

> On May 20, 2012, at 13:29 , David du Colombier wrote:
>
>> echo fsys main create /tmp sys sys d775 >>/srv/fscons
>
> turn that "/tmp" into "/active/tmp" i think, no?
>
> also, for the original question: as a quick hack to get around
> this, i believe you could run mntgen on / so that /tmp magically
> shows up when you bind to it.
>
> the "mounted directory forbids creation" sounds suspect, though.
> trying to bind onto a non-existent target should yield a simple
> "file does not exist".
>
> and, of course, that doesn't address why it went away.
> anthony
>



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-05-20 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAM8pOuNE-CK41emPuCngMPRqye194i8C-tbDZRK0vSXZHfDe7Q@mail.gmail.c>
2012-05-20 16:59 ` erik quanstrom
2012-05-20 17:10   ` Burton Samograd
2012-05-20 17:15     ` Burton Samograd
2012-05-20 17:21       ` andrew zerger
2012-05-20 17:31         ` Burton Samograd
2012-05-20 17:29       ` David du Colombier
2012-05-20 18:04         ` Anthony Sorace
2012-05-20 18:27           ` David du Colombier
2012-05-20 20:34           ` steve [this message]
2012-05-21  0:46         ` erik quanstrom
2012-05-20 16:56 Burton Samograd
2012-05-20 20:36 ` Rudolf Sykora
2012-05-20 20:49   ` andrew zerger
2012-05-20 20:59     ` Charles Forsyth
2012-05-20 21:16       ` Burton Samograd
2012-05-20 21:21         ` Burton Samograd
2012-05-20 21:33           ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2012-05-20 21:42           ` cinap_lenrek
2012-05-21  5:05         ` kokamoto

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