Subject: Re: Apple UFS and FFS?
To: Lasse =?iso-8859-1?q?Hiller=F8e?= Petersen <lhp+news@toft-hp.dk>
From: Charles M. Hannum <abuse@spamalicious.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 09/02/2004 13:46:55
On Thursday 02 September 2004 10:48, Lasse Hiller=F8e Petersen wrote:
> I have noticed that I can mount the Apple_UFS partition in NetBSD
> without any apparent problems. Is it safe to do so? Are Apple UFS and
> FFS 100% compatible?
>
> Could I change all the Apple_UNIX_SVR2 partitions to Apple_UFS
> partitions and still run NetBSD on them? That would make the entire
> NetBSD disk space accessible from MacOS X, which would be very
> convenient.

No, they are not quite compatible.  Our FFS code has some small hacks to=20
recognize Apple UFS partitions (based on the partition type) and deal with=
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the minor differences.

Doing it the other way (using our FFS on OSX) may not be reliable.