From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 3 13:34:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA04760 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 13:34:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critic.cynic.net (critic.cynic.net [198.73.220.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA04741 for ; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 13:34:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjs@portal.ca) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by critic.cynic.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA15097; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 13:34:11 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: critic.cynic.net: cjs owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 13:34:11 -0800 (PST) From: Curt Sampson X-Sender: cjs@critic.cynic.net To: bsdean@gte.net cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mounting a FreeBSD partition on NetBSD or SunOS In-Reply-To: <199801010219.VAA04068@corona.unx.sas.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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.