> 6) [Not necessary for bootstrapping] So that 5) remains true, the 9load
> file must be tagged SYSTEM, so that it is not moved when updating.

i originally read this incorrectly as from the prespective of dossrv(4);
in that case one would say ...

from the perspective of dossrv(4), the exclusive use flag tells dossrv
to try to keep the program contiguous on disk.  moving it around is
ok.

> 3) The PBS [on an iso] has to bootstrap a diskette, so is not an LBA aware 
> one. On a
> disk, the Plan9 partition can be a far, far, far, far realm...

thanks to geoff's recent work, this isn't true anymore.  see mk9660(8)
and the -B flag.  i have no idea what *bsd tools would want to support this.

- erik

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