On 4/9/06, Rudi Ludwig <rudihl@gmx.de> wrote:
> Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> > Hi all,
>
> > With the file system created, I launched qemu again and, when trying to
> > mount the file system by doing 'mount /dev/wd0e /mnt', I constantly
> > get "incorrect superblock".
> >
> ....
> > Just to ensure that I got things right, I tried to do the same exact th=
ing but
> > creating a FAT file system instead of an UFS one.  And guess what,
> > I could mount it correctly in NetBSD after creating it from OS X.
> >
> > Do you know if this is possible?  Any idea on what may be wrong?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>
> > The Julipedia - http://julipedia.blogspot.com/
> >
> >
> Just a guess in the wild. Did you enable endian independand support
> in the i386 kernel for FFS?
> My guess is that the NetBSD i386 reads the structure LE where it was
> written BE by MacOS. The definition of FAT is always LE, so no mis-
> understanding between the two worlds.
>
> Does this explain what you are seeing?

Yes, that was it.  Thank you very much!

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Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>
The Julipedia - http://julipedia.blogspot.com/