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/n was always for remote-host roots (that and the faces server) - n
for network, I'd imagine. In Plan 9 it became the place for impromptu
mounts, since mntgen(4) is there. This practice should have died the
day we started putting mntgen on /mnt. I would even want this
recommendation to be made somewhere in section 8 of the manual.