vacfs.4 (1528B)
1 .TH VACFS 4 2 .SH NAME 3 vacfs \- a Venti-based file system 4 .SH SYNOPSIS 5 .B vacfs 6 [ 7 .B -dip 8 ] 9 [ 10 .B -h 11 .I host 12 ] 13 [ 14 .B -m 15 .I mtpt 16 ] 17 [ 18 .B -s 19 .I srvname 20 ] 21 [ 22 .B -M 23 .I mem 24 ] 25 .I vacfile 26 .SH DESCRIPTION 27 .I Vacfs 28 interprets the file system created by 29 .MR vac (1) 30 so that it can be mounted into a Plan 9 file hierarchy. 31 The data for the file system is stored on a Venti server 32 with a root fingerprint specified in 33 .IR vacfile . 34 .I Vacfs 35 is currently rather limited: access is read-only, 36 clients are not authenticated, and groups are assumed to 37 contain a single member with the same name. 38 These restrictions should eventually be removed. 39 .PP 40 Options to 41 .I vacfs 42 are: 43 .TP 44 .B -d 45 Print debugging information to standard error. 46 .TP 47 .BI -h " host 48 The network address of the Venti server. 49 The default is taken from the environment variable 50 .BR venti . 51 If this variable does not exist, then the default is the 52 metaname 53 .BR $venti . 54 .\" which can be configured via 55 .\" .IR ndb (6). 56 .TP 57 .B -i 58 Use file descriptors 0 and 1 as the 9P communication channel rather than create a pipe. 59 .TP 60 .BI -m " mtpt 61 The location to mount the file system. The default is not to mount. 62 .TP 63 .BI -p 64 Disables permission checking. 65 .TP 66 .B -s 67 The name of the 9P service to post. 68 The default is 69 .BR vacfs. name \fR, 70 where 71 .I name 72 is 73 .I vacfile 74 without any directory name or 75 .L .vac 76 extension. 77 .TP 78 .BI -M " mem 79 The amount of memory, in bytes, allocated to the block cache. The default is 16M. 80 .PD 81 .SH SOURCE 82 .B \*9/src/cmd/vac 83 .SH "SEE ALSO" 84 .MR vac (1) , 85 Plan 9's 86 .IR venti (8)