From owner-freebsd-fs Thu Feb 22 19:39:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-fs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA01194 for fs-outgoing; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 19:39:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.mnsinc.com (mail1.mnsinc.com [206.55.3.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA01163 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 19:39:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from steffi.mnsinc.com (steffi.mnsinc.com [206.239.33.180]) by mail1.mnsinc.com (8.6.5/8.7.1) with ESMTP id WAA13508 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 22:39:13 -0500 Received: (from robert@localhost) by steffi.mnsinc.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA01606; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 22:39:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 22:39:03 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Nicholson Message-Id: <199602230339.WAA01606@steffi.mnsinc.com> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Mounting a NeXTSTEP filesystem? Reply-To: robert@steffi.mnsinc.com Sender: owner-fs@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Can it be done in 2.1? a NeXTSTEP partition is suppose to be a 4.3 type partition. -- "For I am Costanza, lord of the Idiots" (PGP key: send email with Subject: request pgp key) From owner-freebsd-fs Fri Feb 23 06:11:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-fs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA09938 for fs-outgoing; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 06:11:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from tubkom.prz.tu-berlin.de (tubkom.prz.tu-berlin.de [130.149.62.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA09858 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 06:10:25 -0800 (PST) From: wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de Received: from grobi.prz.tu-berlin.de (grobi.prz.tu-berlin.de [130.149.226.15]) by tubkom.prz.tu-berlin.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA22820; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 15:08:15 +0100 Message-Id: <199602231408.PAA22820@tubkom.prz.tu-berlin.de> Received: by grobi.prz.tu-berlin.de (1.38.193.4/15.6) id AA21902; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 15:09:10 +0100 Subject: Re: Mounting a NeXTSTEP filesystem? To: robert@steffi.mnsinc.com Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 15:09:10 +0100 (MEZ) Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199602230339.WAA01606@steffi.mnsinc.com> from "Robert Nicholson" at Feb 22, 96 10:39:03 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-fs@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Robert Nicholson wrote: > > > Can it be done in 2.1? I don't think so. NEXTSTEP ufs partitions store all infos in the superblocks, inodes etc. in big endian format. That allows that the same NS ufs file system can be mounted on all NS supported architectures (i486, m86k, HPPA, Sparc). E.g. the Linux ufs driver also couldn't mount NS ufs until it was patched to convert the big endian values in the file system structures to little endian before using them. (It works now, although still read-only). > a NeXTSTEP partition is suppose to be a 4.3 type partition. Yes, but big endian. AFAIK the FreeBSD ufs doesn't take care of this yet. Thomas -- Thomas Wolfram email: wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de PRZ/EANTC, Technical University of Berlin voice: +49 30 314 27606 http://www.prz.tu-berlin.de/~wolf fax: +49 30 314 25986 _____________________________________________________________________________ _____S__I__C____T__R__A__N__S__I__T____G__L__O__R__I__A____M__U__N__D__I_____ From owner-freebsd-fs Fri Feb 23 07:39:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-fs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA15904 for fs-outgoing; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 07:39:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from nrlmry.navy.mil (helium.nrlmry.navy.mil [192.138.87.243]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA15899 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 07:39:30 -0800 (PST) From: norton@nrlmry.navy.mil Received: from norton.nrlmry.navy.mil.nrlmry.navy.mil by nrlmry.navy.mil (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02060; Fri, 23 Feb 96 07:38:35 PST Received: by norton.nrlmry.navy.mil.nrlmry.navy.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id HAA05925; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 07:36:16 -0800 Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 07:36:16 -0800 Message-Id: <199602231536.HAA05925@norton.nrlmry.navy.mil.nrlmry.navy.mil> To: wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de Cc: robert@steffi.mnsinc.com, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199602231408.PAA22820@tubkom.prz.tu-berlin.de> (wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de) Subject: Re: Mounting a NeXTSTEP filesystem? Sender: owner-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Hmmm - don't show that message to my 2.1 system because it has been mounting my NeXTstep partitions since 386bsd 0.1. I don't want it to wise up and stop working! -dave >From: wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de >Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 15:09:10 +0100 (MEZ) > > > >I don't think so. > >Thomas >-- >Thomas Wolfram email: wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de >PRZ/EANTC, Technical University of Berlin voice: +49 30 314 27606 >http://www.prz.tu-berlin.de/~wolf fax: +49 30 314 25986 >_____________________________________________________________________________ >_____S__I__C____T__R__A__N__S__I__T____G__L__O__R__I__A____M__U__N__D__I_____ > From owner-freebsd-fs Fri Feb 23 08:00:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-fs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA17715 for fs-outgoing; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 08:00:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from tubkom.prz.tu-berlin.de (tubkom.prz.tu-berlin.de [130.149.62.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA17681 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 08:00:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from apollo.prz.tu-berlin.de (apollo.prz.tu-berlin.de [130.149.226.78]) by tubkom.prz.tu-berlin.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA23379; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 16:58:09 +0100 Message-Id: <199602231558.QAA23379@tubkom.prz.tu-berlin.de> Received: by apollo.prz.tu-berlin.de (8.6.11/NX3.0X) id QAA23620; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 16:59:50 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3risc v118.3) In-Reply-To: <199602231536.HAA05925@norton.nrlmry.navy.mil.nrlmry.navy.mil> X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 3.3 (Enhance 1.0) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.118.3) From: Thomas Wolfram Date: Fri, 23 Feb 96 16:59:49 +0100 To: norton@nrlmry.navy.mil Subject: Re: Mounting a NeXTSTEP filesystem? cc: robert@steffi.mnsinc.com, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199602231536.HAA05925@norton.nrlmry.navy.mil.nrlmry.navy.mil> Sender: owner-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk You wrote: > Hmmm - don't show that message to my 2.1 system because it has been mounting > my NeXTstep partitions since 386bsd 0.1. I don't want it to wise up and stop > working! Oops... It seems that I made something wrong when I tried it some time ago. Nice to know... Thomas PS: Do you have NS in a Primary partition or on a whole disk without partition table? --- Thomas Wolfram email: wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de PRZ/EANTC, Technical University of Berlin voice: +49 30 314 27606 http://www.prz.tu-berlin.de/~wolf fax: +49 30 314 25986 _____________________________________________________________________________ _____S__I__C____T__R__A__N__S__I__T____G__L__O__R__I__A____M__U__N__D__I_____ From owner-freebsd-fs Sat Feb 24 09:07:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-fs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA26464 for fs-outgoing; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 09:07:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from ucthpx.uct.ac.za (ucthpx.uct.ac.za [137.158.128.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA26456 for ; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 09:07:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by ucthpx.uct.ac.za (Smail3.1.28.1 #47) id m0tqNQl-000KHCC; Sat, 24 Feb 96 19:06 SAST Received: from leftside by leftside.its.uct.ac.za with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0tqHEq-00000qC; Sat, 24 Feb 96 12:30 SAT Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 12:30:04 +0200 (SAT) From: Peter van Heusden X-Sender: pvh@leftside To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Compressing filesystem for FreeBSD Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-fs@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I'm not quite sure where to ask this question, so please redirect me if this is the wrong list... Does anyone know if anyone has done any work on writing a compressing filesystem for FreeBSD? I've been thinking about this, and the strategies to do it, and I'd like to know if there is any previous work out there I can refer to... Thanks, Peter