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_____