From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 11:21:03 -0400 From: Russ Cox To: Lucio De Re , Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] killing processes In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <6cf9c9fd3d137685c7460de39f207d00@huygens.org> Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8c18cdaa-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > > Yes, you can tell cfs to clear the cache on startup, but then you lose = a lot > > of speed during the early phases of running. > > Out of ignorance, perhaps, I'd expect to be able to distinguish at > startup between the target roots and make a decision accordingly. > Would the namespace not be able to offer alternative caches in such a > situation? That would be just about ideal, wouldn't it? You can do that with plan9.ini: set up two different [whatever] sections with root=3D and cfs=3D lines. It's only when you're typing the root at root is from: that you get in trouble, because there is no cache is from: prompt. Russ