On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 01:06:57PM -0000, Andrew Ball wrote:
> 
>    DL> The kernel has code for accessing filesystems byte-swapped.
>      > But there is no code for reading byte-swapped netbsd labels.
> 
> Do disklabels vary between ports, or just between endian types?  For
> example, would macppc be able to read a data disk written by sparc64
> (both big-endian)?

The location on disk varies, and some ports only support 8 partitions,
otherwise the format is only endianness dependant.
Unfortunately nothing in the label area itself defines the maximum
number of partitions.

> I'm happy for each disk to contain a single filesystem, but your
> mention of USB sticks is interesting.  Can they be readily moved
> between machines running different ports of NetBSD?

Well, they usually contain FAT filesystems (eg MP3 players and cameras etc).

	David

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