Ken Nakata wrote:
> Colin Wood wrote:
> > I think that Hauke was right and the NetBSD/mac68k kernel doesn't
> > recognize ext2fs filesystems as he states below:
> >  
> > > > The MacBSD kernel evaluates the native Macintosh partition table and fakes
> > > > a NetBSD disklabel from it. There is definitely no code in there to label a
> > > > partition as "ext2fs" or whatever, so if mount_ext2fs(8) looks at the
> > > > partition type, it sees "4.2BSD" and you lose.
> > > >
> > > > Yet another reason to implement native disklabels...
> 
> I think this is somehow irrelevant as to why you cannot mount_ext2fs a
> partition formatted by MacLinux.  At least, mount_* commands doesn't
> seem to care what type the partition is labeled, nor does mount(2).

Really?  That seems a bit strange.....

> It leads me to conclude that, as long as MacLinux follows the MacOS
> partitioning scheme, there should be nothing to prevent us from
> mounting ext2fs-formatted partitions.

I think it does, but of course, I know very little about it, so...

> The current ext2fs seems to be aware of different endians, but 1.3.2
> may not be (though I'm not sure, not having checked the actual code).
> Perhaps, the latest current snapshot might help.

According to a post from Manuel Bouyer to current-users, I think, the
bi-endian ffs stuff was in the 1.3 branch, so it should be in 1.3.2
(unless I was reading the posting wrong).

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - PMD                 Intel Corporation
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