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Date: Tue,  8 Jul 2008 22:17:01 -0500
From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" <ericvh@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] why not Lvx for Plan 9?
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On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 7:13 PM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> When I first got v9fs working, 1998, I tried mounting file systems
> over 9p. What a mess. Things just broke in weird ways. There is code
> that really wants a symlink to be there and readable. I can't even
> recall all the places, but they're there. And things break if you
> mount and don't have symlinks.
>
> Which is why I put readlink etc. in my v9fs, and why the .U version is
> in today's linux kernels.
>

And now you need extended attributes in order to support SElinux or
RedHat behaves weirdly.  It really never does end.