From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:32:14 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <<8ccc8ba40911220158o571d0f47rb96b3a54b6695efe@mail.gmail.com>> References: <<8ccc8ba40911220158o571d0f47rb96b3a54b6695efe@mail.gmail.com>> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] usb disks in plan9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9e2674e8-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sun Nov 22 05:01:24 EST 2009, nemo@lsub.org wrote: > Usb disks don't know how to handle partitions. > You have to use partfs IIRC or some other tool to > partition it. > usb/disk should return "bad process or channel control request" rather than "permission denied". with contrib quanstro/sd, one can use sdloop(3). there are two things i like about sdloop it saves one round-trip to user space over partfs. since it's just a driver, i'm pretty sure one could just drop in in a standard kernel. - erik