>  > 	Possible. It could be that OS X's 'newfs -O' doesn't in fact
>  > create an old-style filesystem
> 
> X's UFS/FFS is slightly different from BSD's -- If you want to test
> reading NetBSD file systems, you have to use the NetBSD "newfs" to
> create the file system in the first place.

	Hmmm. Difficult.

	I tried to use NetBSD/macppc to format a partition appropriately,
but the floppy-based install kernel only seemed to be able to format the
whole disk. Not useful for the machine I am developing on!


...
> These problems are probably related to using X's "newfs".

	Probably, though instkernel created partitions that have
been tested by some of our Japanese users have a similar problem.


	What format does instkernel create? Does libsa/ufs.c read it?

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