From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] partition question
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 08:46:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a050202054632bd81a5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.61.0502011439290.23562@malasada.lava.net>
> I noticed the sd device (devsd, '#s') doesnt probe for partitions
> itself, but relies on an external source for partitions. Commands like
> disk/prep -p and disk/fdisk -p can probe the disk to generate the commands
> sd needs to populate the tables. The /rc/bin/termrc has such fdisk and
> prep commands. What is confusing to me though is that I cant find a
> similar instance for cpurc. How are these tables populated in the cpu
> case (9load through the getconf call that devsd makes?)? Pointers to
> where in the code to look would be appreciated.
In addition to what Richard said, there are no disks on our CPU servers. ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-02 13:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-02 0:44 Tim Newsham
2005-02-02 10:44 ` Richard Miller
2005-02-02 13:46 ` Russ Cox [this message]
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2004-06-14 9:07 [9fans] Partition question Jeremy English
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