Subject: Re: wanted: sparc 4m miniroot
To: None <gherbert@Axil.COM>
From: Darren Reed <darrenr@arbld.unimelb.edu.au>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/12/1997 21:22:11
In some email I received from gherbert@Axil.COM, sie wrote:
> 
> 
> Charles Lepple <clepple@tjhsst.edu> writes:
> > >As far as I know, the file system format used for Solaris 2.x is the same as
> > >that used by SunOS 4.1 (which NetBSD supports).
> > 
> > The default is the ufs format _if_ you have upgraded from SunOS 4.x, otherwise
> > it is the SysV format (I think -- I have only messed around with machines that
> > have either a straight 4.x installation or have been upgraded to Solaris 2.x).
> 
> I don't recall having od'ed a raw disk partition and checked by hand,
> but all Solaris 2.x work I've done has always said it's ufs type filesystems
> (and I regularly move drives over to Solaris 1.1.2 machines from 2.5
> machines and mount it..).  So, ought to be portable from any existing
> 2.x (x up to 2.5.1) machine to NetBSD/Sparc.  I don't think Sun changed
> their filesystem when they went to Solaris 2.x.

Something _has_ to be different for 2.5: files can now have ACL's