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NAME
kfs - disk file system
SYNOPSIS
disk/kfs [ -rc ] [ -b n ] [ -f file ] [ -n name ] [ -p perm ] [ -s ] [
-B nbuf ]
DESCRIPTION
Kfs is an old, local user-level file server for a Plan 9 terminal with
a disk. It maintains a hierarchical Plan 9 file system on the disk and
offers 9P (see intro(5)) access to it. Kfs begins by checking the file
system for consistency, rebuilding the free list, and placing a file
descriptor in /srv/name, where name is the service name (default kfs).
If the file system is inconsistent, the user is asked for permission to
ream (q.v.) the disk. The file system is not checked if it is reamed.
The options are
b n If the file system is reamed, use n byte blocks. Larger blocks
make the file system faster and less space efficient. 1024 and
4096 are good choices. N must be a multiple of 512.
c Do not check the file system.
f file Use file as the disk. The default is /dev/sdC0/fs.
n name Use kfs.name as the name of the service.
p perm Use perm as the initial permissions for the command channel
/srv/service.cmd; the default is 660.
r Ream the file system, erasing all of the old data and adding all
blocks to the free list.
s Post file descriptor zero in /srv/service and read and write
protocol messages on file descriptor one.
B Allocate nbuf in-memory file system blocks. The default is as
many as will fit in 10% of memory or two megabytes, whichever is
smaller.
EXAMPLES
Create a file system with service name kfs.local and mount it on
/n/kfs.
% disk/kfs -rb4096 -nlocal
% mount -c /srv/kfs.local /n/kfs
FILES
/dev/sdC0/fs
Default file holding blocks.
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/disk/kfs
SEE ALSO
fossil(4), kfscmd(8), mkfs(8), prep(8), sd(3)
BUGS
For the moment, kfs serves both the old (third edition) and new (fourth
edition) versions of 9P, deciding which to serve by sniffing the first
packet on each connection.
Kfs doesn't allow creating files with component names longer than 28
bytes.
KFS(4)