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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:05:31 -0300
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From: Iruata Souza <iru.muzgo@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Steve Simon<steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> 9fat is also a pain in that the 9load file must be created with,
> and retain its append only file, which has a special meaning to 9fat
> telling it to create the file in sequential blocks.
>
> This could (and has) caused problems if you access the 9fat partition
> from os's other than plan9.
>
> The only times I have had to change plan9.ini from somthing else
> than the booted system (because I have broken the boot process)
> I booted the plan9 live cdrom.
>
> I would be happy if 9load and 9fat disappeared and it was
> replaced with a plan9 bootstrap kernel and (say) an rc(1) script.
>

that's just what 9null is: new pbs, 9pcload (bootstrap kernel),
/boot/boot using rc(1) scripts.
instead of a 'root from' you may get a 'kernel is at' prompt to which
you can ask for a shell (!rc)

iru