Subject: Re: Spectrum issues revisited
To: Amiga NetBSD port <port-amiga@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 07/02/1999 21:48:26
On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 11:24:37PM +0200, Tobias Abt wrote:
> 
> Of you just want a small partition that is writable from both OS'es, why
> not use a small NetBSD partition? If you "newfs -O" it, you can use an
> older version of the bffs filesystem for the Amiga and write to it. (1.2
> or 1.3, I am not sure which one, I haven't installed NetBSD lately... :-)

NetBSD-1.5beta, so I've heard, can read and write 4.4bsd FFS correctly.
However, as there is no clean shutdown or unmount procedure for AmigaOS,
it won't ever set the clean flag again. So, you'll always fsck the shared
partition when NetBSD boots. Tobias' advice will still apply.

Regards,
	-is