Subject: Re: wanted: sparc 4m miniroot
To: behind brown eyes <benji@haven.boston.ma.us>
From: Grey Wolf <greywolf@siva.captech.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 12/26/1996 12:51:28
Except that the dev, rdev and size fields have (I think) changed sizes.
[nope, just dev and rdev...].

behind brown eyes sez:
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 * Subject: Re: wanted: sparc 4m miniroot
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 * According to Carl S Shapiro:
 * >>Ugh.  I don't think that NetBSD/sparc groks Solaris 2.x filesystems properly
 * >>(yet).  You may be losing in a big way because of that.
 * > 
 * > This is possible.  Under both Solaris 2.5 and 2.5.1, I have had much luck
 * > mountng the Solaris "s5fs" volumes under the respective port of NetBSD on
 * > the same machine, as well as reading and writing data to the partitions.
 * > I am not quite sure how *safe* it is to write to the drives, but mounting
 * > read only has caused absolutly no noticable problems.
 * > 
 * 
 * As far as I know, the file system format used for Solaris 2.x is the same as
 * that used by SunOS 4.1 (which NetBSD supports).
 * 
 * I remember seeing this somewhere on-line, but now I can't find the information,
 * although I've confirmed this myself (moving a disk from a 4.1.2 to a 5.5 
 * system, without any problems).
 * 
 * 	benji
 * 
 * -- 
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