Subject: Re: Filesystems
To: markemmanuel <lists@markemmanuel.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-macppc
Date: 04/25/2001 15:05:17
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:03:36PM +0800, markemmanuel wrote:
> Quoted from the Book of Manuel Bouyer Ch 6:7-13 on 4/25/01 4:34 AM:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 03:13:33PM +0800, markemmanuel wrote:
> >> Do all the *BSDs with the exception of Darwin use the same filesystem?
> > 
> > It's the same on-disk layout, yes.
> 
> And they all use FFS? I'm using NetBSD right now on a Mac and I was planning
> to build a new AMD based computer. Thanks.  :)

They all use FFS, but be aware that FFS is endian-dependant, so sharing
filesystems between Mac and PC can be problematic (NetBSD has a kernel
option FFS_EI which allows to mount reverse-endian FFS, but not all
BSD have it).

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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