From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:56:45 -0300 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Iruat=E3_Souza?=" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] dir tree Qs In-Reply-To: <0e16b31d6bdd819c6e2df755028243eb@vitanuova.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <0e16b31d6bdd819c6e2df755028243eb@vitanuova.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: a2e1885a-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 2006/8/17, rog@vitanuova.com : > > is yet another one confusing me. If /mnt stands for "mount", what does /n > > stand for? > > actually, the main distinction seems to be that /n holds filesystems > that contain regular files, and /mnt has service interfaces. > > personally i wouldn't mind losing /mnt - /n is so much easier to type. > i don't know if that's too silly of me, but having this separation with this semantics (regular files vs service interfaces) doesn't goes against the idea that in plan9 one wouldn't have to differentiate between types of files unless he/she wishes so?