| Re: [9fans] why not Lvx for Plan 9? |
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Group: comp.os.plan9 · Group Profile
Author: Eric Van HensbergenEric Van Hensbergen Date: Jul 8, 2008 20:20
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 7:13 PM, ron minnich gmail.com> wrote:>
> When I first got v9fs working, 1998, I tried mounting file systems
> over 9p. What a mess. Things just broke in weird ways. There is code
> that really wants a symlink to be there and readable. I can't even
> recall all the places, but they're there. And things break if you
> mount and don't have symlinks.
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> Which is why I put readlink etc. in my v9fs, and why the .U version is
> in today's linux kernels.
>
And now you need extended attributes in order to support SElinux or
RedHat behaves weirdly. It really never does end.
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