Re: [9fans] usb disks in plan9

[Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net>]

> Usb disks don't know how to handle partitions.
> You have to use partfs IIRC or some other tool to
> partition it.

Hmm..  Here is what I would like to do.  I would like to put
a FAT32 and a fossil (or kfs) filesystem on a usb flash drive
and use the FAT32 for botting and the fossil as my root
filesystem.

Lets say that the usb disk did support partitioning, or I used
the entire usb disk as a single filesystem, is there any
way to specify to mount /srv/usb's sdU4.0/data (or whatever name)
as root?  Or would I have to hack a mount of /srv/usb into
/sys/src/9/boot and specify something like "local!/dev/sdU4.0/data"?

If I use something like partfs, I would have to hack this
into the /sys/src/9/boot stuff, right?

Is there any long term desire to allow booting off of USB drives?

Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | thenewsh.blogspot.com