> Next plan9.ini's "rootdir". It is no longer documented in
> plan9.ini(8), but the little code that uses it in bootrc is odd as
> well as at odds with the legacy documentation.

yes! we got it all wrong! it all makes sense in the /lib/namespace
what should happen, but bootrc does it wrong.

> My hope was to give it "9front" as a value and have Fossil serve
> that as the root for a diskless 9front workstation, as in

>      bind -b $rootdir /

> Instead, I find "mount -c /srv/boot $rootdir" which is definitely not
> it. 

you are absolutely correct. this is wrong. here is the fix:

http://code.9front.org/hg/plan9front/rev/1209e04a3af9

> I'm not sure under what circumstances one target a different
> location for the ROOT directory, I would be interested to hear. Of
> course, this conflict needs to be resolved.

> This is starting to get interesting.

yeah. thank you very much! :-)

> Lucio.

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cinap

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