Subject: Re: UFS status
To: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
From: Garrett D'Amore <garrett_damore@tadpole.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/26/2005 13:29:23
Michael wrote:

>Hello,
>
>  
>
>>As I know there are different types of UFS with big and small
>>differents between them.
>>
>>What types of UFS supported by NetBSD 3.0? Is any documentation
>>describing format of this UFS?
>>What about SunOS' ufs and HP-UX's ufs?
>>    
>>
>
>Solaris UFS used to work, but more recent versions are incompatible (
>like Solaris 9 ) - both NetBSD and Solaris will choke or mess up when
>trying to mount the resp. other filesystem. I /think/ Solaris 2.6 and
>older worked, Solaris 2.4 definitely worked ( with NetBSD 1.1, ages ago
>)
>Apple UFS ( 'UNIX filesystem' under MacOS X ) works perfectly fine, at
>least on macppc ( needs options COMPAT_APPLE_UFS though )
>
>have fun
>Michael
>  
>
I think the problem is that recent Sun versions have UFS logging turned
on by default.  The logging feature is apparently not compatible with
NetBSD.

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