Re: [9fans] Installed Plan 9, now what?

["Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>]

> > I recently installed plan 9 on my dell dimension desktop using the
> > wiki notes. I used fossil as my filesystem. How do I stay upto date?
> > The notes on the webpage seems to be for kfs.
>
> OK, I don't get it. There seems to be some consensus that clientmount()
> shoud be 'mount -c /srv/boot /n/boot'. But in /sys/src/9/boot/local.c
> /srv/boot is created as 'srv -A fboot', which means only authentication
> is off; permission checking and arbitrary wstats are still standard. =
> This is clearly
> not enough for replica (confirmed by in vivo experiments).=20
> So, what's the deal?

the deal is that for the local file system, it's okay
not to do authentication.  kfs never did, for bootstrapping
reasons, and so i made the fossil boot process do the same.
otherwise you'd need to run an auth server just to boot
a standalone laptop.

it's only for booting, not for pulling.  i just put myself
in sys and remove the -u from the proto file, and then that's
enough for replica (and all the created files get owned by me,
which is no problem for me).  if you have a special system account
you could still do the same, as long as you're willing to give
up on things being owned by sys.

russ