At 22:17 Uhr +0200 9.8.2000, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
>> I sincerely doubt I can take the disk out of the Ultra 450 in the
>> closet here, connect it to my macppc machine, and expect it to work.
>
>There's a difference between the file system being usable, and the disk
>being usable. The difference is the partition table.

Right. I didn't think about that. The {sun3,sparc,sparc64} ports have code
that transparently maps SunOS disklabels to BSD disklabels, afaik. You can
port that, or make it MI.  ;)

>If the file system filled the entire disk, then the file system should
>work on macppc (and any other NetBSD port, though LE ones would need
>FFS_EI). :-)
>
>If you look at the mount code, you will see that, wiht COMPAT_10 (or is it
>COMPAT_09?), NetBSD's mount call will take ufs as a synonym for ffs. :-)

And the ffs is versioned (as in "newfs -O").

	hauke



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