From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 1 2:29:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5896B37B405 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 02:29:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ticso@mail.cicely.de) Received: from mail.cicely.de (cicely20 [10.1.1.22]) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f619T1671162; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 11:29:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by mail.cicely.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f619TWP22271; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 11:29:32 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 11:29:26 +0200 From: Bernd Walter To: simond@irrelevant.org Cc: Rich Morin , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: compatibility of UFS-partitioned FireWire drives Message-ID: <20010701112926.A22242@cicely20.cicely.de> References: <754836544.20010630185133@morning.ru> <20010630140907.A947@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <1806975199.20010630192712@morning.ru> <15166.16657.406627.673835@guru.mired.org> <20010701080220.B23390@irrelevant.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010701080220.B23390@irrelevant.org>; from simond@irrelevant.org on Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 08:02:20AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 08:02:20AM +0100, simond@irrelevant.org wrote: > On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 02:59:57PM -0700, Rich Morin wrote: > > I have a luggable FireWire drive which I am considering using for > > backups and data mobility on a variety of machines and operating > > systems (roughly, *BSD, Mac OS X, and (eventually) Linux). > > > > I'd welcome any suggestions as to things to do or avoid. I'd rather > > not get a ways down the road and discover that I need to repartition > > the disc for some obscure reason... > > Unfortunately there's no FireWire support in FreeBSD yet, but once there > is I don't see why UFS partitions wouldn't work :) Because Partition tables are different and UFS is byte order dependend. Mac OS X Platforms have a different byte order than FreeBSD Platforms so it won't work in this case. You might have a chance sharing i386 FreeBSD with i386 linux or ppc NetBSD with ppc Max OS X - but keep in mind that you can't use OS dependend extensions to UFS and writing may be unhealthy. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message