From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <86ipmza9yd.fsf@cmarib.ramside> References: <861utuht0w.fsf@cmarib.ramside> <86ipmza9yd.fsf@cmarib.ramside> Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 16:57:03 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [9fans] FS for sharing between Linux and Plan 9 From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3e2f4e5a-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 4:50 PM, wrote: > Hm. =C2=A0It looks like I might have been wrong about that. =C2=A0Digging= a little > deeper, it seems like plan9port doesn't have any fdisk, prep, or fossil. > Is that correct? =C2=A0(And if so, why?) =C2=A0I know that Linux doesn't = have any > kernel-level support for Plan 9 partitions or the fossil file system. > But can't that stuff be done in userspace, too? You can port it if you want. Plan9port tries to integrate well with the host operating system. Part of that means using the same file tree, and the host OS cannot talk to fossil. There is disk code that knows how to read Plan 9 partition tables. The venti server uses it to let you write /dev/sdC0:arenas. Russ