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Date:      Sat, 3 Jan 1998 13:34:11 -0800 (PST)
From:      Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
To:        bsdean@gte.net
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mounting a FreeBSD partition on NetBSD or SunOS
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.980103133133.14790L-100000@critic.cynic.net>
In-Reply-To: <199801010219.VAA04068@corona.unx.sas.com>

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On Wed, 31 Dec 1997, Brian Dean wrote:

> I have an Iomega Jaz drive (removable
> media) and would like to be able to create a Unix filesystem that is
> mountable by both systems that I can transport between machines.

Well, there are several problems here.

1. The systems have different endianness. Thus FFS isn't compatable
between the two.

2. The systems have disklabels in different places. This can
sometimes be gotten around by writing multiple, identical disklabels
on the disk, assuming you can get around the endian problems as well.

I was looking at doing the disklabel work around the middle of last
year, but I never really found a satisfactory solution, and finally
lost access to the Jaz drive I had, so the point is now fairly moot
for me. But I may borrow a couple of ZIP drives and have another
go at this one day. Unfortunately it's fallen too low on my priority
list to happen any time soon.

cjs

Curt Sampson    cjs@portal.ca	   Info at http://www.portal.ca/
Internet Portal Services, Inc.	   Through infinite mist, software reverberates
Vancouver, BC  (604) 257-9400	   In code possess'd of invisible folly.




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