Could I persuade anyone to contribute the text for a NetBSD/sparc
	FAQ entry on this - what you can and can't do and what you should
	expect? :)

		David/absolute

                  -=-  "Maybe god will cover up his eyes"  -=-

On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Preston Vega wrote:

> I didnt mean to imply that you can fsck your fs with nbsd flop. I only
> mean that you can MOUNT a fs that needs to be fscked. Being that theonly
> two options are obsd and nbsd flops (obsd wouldnt mount, nbsd did) I found
> that nbsd flop is really handy. 
> 
> Cheers,
> BUGO Founder
> 
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> 
> On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> 
> > In article <Pine.NEB.4.05.9907190857001.2227-100000@7thsun.piermont.com>,
> > Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> wrote:
> > >On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Preston Vega wrote:
> > >
> > >> Btw, the syboot NetBSD flop makes an excellent recovery diskette for those
> > >> with Solaris installed. I was rather impressed. I tried to mount the fs
> > >> with an obsd diskette and it didnt work. NetBSD flop mounted it even
> > >> though it needed to be fsck'ed.
> > >
> > >Err...is it still the case that you shouldn't fsck, or even mount
> > >R/W, a solaris partition under NetBSD? Or was it the other way
> > >around? I understood that one writing the other would mean the
> > >other could no longer read it, but I forget which direction this
> > >went in.
> > >
> > 
> > Ok. here's the scoop:
> > 
> > Filesystems created with < Solaris-2.7 that do not have ACL's work fine.
> > If you have ACL's and you fsck under NetBSD, you'll blow your ACL's.
> > If you don't fsck and you mount under NetBSD, you risk corruption.
> > 
> > Solaris 2.7 also supports journalling. If you have turned this on and you
> > mount a Solaris-2.7 filesystem under netbsd (I have not tried that), you'll
> > lose any data that was in the transaction log, plus ACL's, plus other things
> > that I am not aware of.
> > 
> > christos
> > 
>