VACFS(4)

💅 VACFS(4) — like, the vacfs manual page, bestie

okay so real talk: this is vacfs(4) from the Kernel Interfaces Manual, and it's genuinely one of those pages you read once and suddenly everything makes sense. stay with me 💖

✨ NAME ✨

vacfs — a Venti-based file system. that's it, that's the vibe. 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

vacfs [ -dip ] [ -h host ] [ -m mtpt ] [ -s srvname ] [ -M mem ] vacfile

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So vacfs takes the file system that vac(1) created and interprets it so it can be mounted into a Plan 9 file hierarchy. iconic behavior honestly. 🔥

The data for the file system lives on a Venti server, and the root fingerprint is specified in vacfile. yes bestie, that's where it all comes from ✨

Now the part where I have to be honest with you: vacfs is currently rather limited. like, lowkey held together with hope:

• access is read-only
• clients are not authenticated
• groups are assumed to contain a single member with the same name

These restrictions should eventually be removed. until then we simply vibe with them 🙈

💅 OPTIONS 💅

okay here's the whole lineup, no skipping, we're not doing that here 🫶

• -d — print debugging information to standard error. messy but informative, yk? 👑
• -h host — the network address of the Venti server. the default is taken from the environment variable venti. if that variable does not exist, then the default is the metaname $venti. yes, that's the whole rule, no cap ⭐
• -i — use file descriptors 0 and 1 as the 9P communication channel rather than create a pipe. direct line, main character energy 💀
• -m mtpt — the location to mount the file system. the default is not to mount. literally the default is "don't" 😭
• -p — disables permission checking. yes queen, ignore the rules 🌈
• -s — the name of the 9P service to post. the default is vacfs.name, where name is vacfile without any directory name or extension. cute little derivation, slay 🎀
• -M mem — the amount of memory, in bytes, allocated to the block cache. the default is 16M. budget queen 💜

🦋 SOURCE 🦋

/src/cmd/vac

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• vac(1)
• Plan 9's venti(8)

iykyk 💖

ngl bestie, re-read the DESCRIPTION before you go mounting anything — read-only, no client authentication, single-member groups. it's giving "early days" and we respect it 😌

and that's the whole page, mwah 💋 this was VACFS(4) from the Kernel Interfaces Manual, section 4 — go forth and mount responsibly, bestie 🌸💅✨