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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:31:35 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Anatomy of a vblade image
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> I shuold just mail quanstro I guess but maybe someone made a tool
>
> /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/src/vblade
>
> The vblades served by this particular vblade require some magic in the
> first few bytes.
> Vblade on other platforms will quite happily serve a bunch of zeros
>
> Anybody got a script for making an empty vlbade image for serving with
> the above vblade ?
>
> Save me making one :)

plan 9 vblade is a clean room implementation.  friday
evening entertainment. :-)

so i use a header which has magic, size, configuration
string, and the shelf and slot of the vblade.  vblade
checks this magic on startup to determine these parameters.
however you can use the -i switch to initialize a blank
file.  (you're free to use a raw disk or partition, too.)

- erik