Subject: Re: Mount FreeBSD under NetBSD?
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Peter B <pb@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/13/2002 07:09:40
Luke Mewburn wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 06:46:53AM +0200, Peter B wrote:
>  | 
>  |   Is there anyway to mount a freebsd ufs (normal) filesystem under
>  |   NetBSD/sparc..?
>
>FreeBSD/sparc or FreeBSD/intel ?
>
>The former should "Just Work" once you add the appropriate offsets
>into a NetBSD disklabel.

What's the formula for calculating those offsets..?
And then there's the issue of "PC type partitions". (/dev/da0s1 s2 s3 s4)

>The latter requires a kernel compiled with "FFS_EI" option to be
>able to mount it (i386 is litte endian, sparc is big endian).

So NetBSD-152/sparc (sun4c) would with a disklabel command + kernel recompiled 
with FFS_EI option be able to mount a FreeBSD4.5/i386 slice ..?

          /Peter

Btw, is 'mt status' supposed to return fileposition 0 at all times?, that 
feature works in freebsd..