| VACFS(4) | VACFS(4)

NAME

| vacfs – a Venti-based file system

SYNOPSIS

| `vacfs` [ `−dip` ] [ `−h` host ] [ `−m` mtpt ] [ `−s` srvname ] [ `−M` mem ] vacfile

DESCRIPTION

Vacfs interprets the file system created by vac(1) so that it can be mounted into a Plan 9 file hierarchy. The data for the file system is stored on a Venti server with a root fingerprint specified in vacfile. Vacfs is currently rather limited: access is read-only, clients are not authenticated, and groups are assumed to contain a single member with the same name. These restrictions should eventually be removed.

Options to vacfs are:
`−d` Print debugging information to standard error.
`−h` host

| The network address of the Venti server. The default is taken from the environment variable `venti`. If this variable does not exist, then the default is the metaname `$venti`.

`−i` Use file descriptors 0 and 1 as the 9P communication channel rather than create a pipe.
`−m` mtpt

| The location to mount the file system. The default is not to mount.

`−p` Disables permission checking.
`−s` The name of the 9P service to post. The default is `vacfs.`name, where name is vacfile without any directory name or `.vac` extension.
`−M` mem

| The amount of memory, in bytes, allocated to the block cache. The default is 16M.

SOURCE

| `/usr/local/plan9/src/cmd/vac`

SEE ALSO

| vac(1), Plan 9’s venti(8)