From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] vacfs
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Date: Fri,  6 Feb 2004 19:57:36 -0700
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Use a file that looks like this: vac:<20 hex digits> and it all works
fine. Cool. Turns out the 'short read' message, which I thought meant
short read from the venti server, actually meant that the score file was
too short. Possibly the vtSetError("short read") code in
/sys/src/cmd/vac/fs.c could change to
vtSetError("vac file: too short, should be >= 44 bytes"),
which would be more useful to confused folks like
me.

I realize this is catering to the clueless, which only encourages them,
but what the heck, I'm one of them!

Now back to the real Plan 9 system. Lights at end of tunnel?

ron

p.s. I hope nobody minds this running soap story, but I figure somebody
else will hit this prolem someday, and I'm hoping they'll find this thread
in the archives.
p.p.s. It's impressive as all hell that ALL the source code for a running
Plan 9 system is on the boot CD!