Re: [9front] Staying up-to-date

[ori@eigenstate.org]

Quoth Thomas Nemeth <tnemeth@free.fr>:
> Le vendredi 14 juin 2024 22:11:48 CEST, vous avez écrit :
> > the best is to pxe boot from a proper fileserver and learn to forget
> > all those sd card problems.
> 
>     That's an idea, indeed. Seen it in the FQA.
> 
>     Although I'm quite familiar with PXE, BOOTP and DHCP due to my work
>     on Linux embedded systems for ~25y, I'm not when it's related to
>     Plan9 and I find the documentation hard to follow -_-;
> 
>     It seems to be Plan9-fileserver oriented (obviously).
> 
>     In the mean time I was looking at `man 8 fs` and found that the
>     fs "check" command could be used to check for a filesystem
>     integrity. But it's nowhere to be found on the console (in the
>     current state of my research).

the manpages here need a rewrite; they're somewhat.. uh.. historical.
fs(8) is more or less for cwfs; hjfs has its own console, and gefs
has its own.

>     I also wanted to know which filesystems where mounted and couldn't
>     find it in the man pages of the commands specified in the
>     unix2plan9 wiki page. Thanks to fshalt I found out that the root
>     filesystem was hjfs :)
> 
>     Even though I've been playing occasionally with Plan9 and then
>     9front for ~10y, I still don't feel confident enough for system
>     administration.

Yes, it's not difficult, but it's certainly different. A smaller
community also means a lot less documentation.