From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 6 15:13:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D222416A403 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 15:13:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from clay@milos.co.za) Received: from bart.milos.co.za (bart.milos.co.za [196.38.18.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A06B43CAB for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 15:13:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from clay@milos.co.za) Received: (qmail 24792 invoked by uid 89); 6 Dec 2006 15:13:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO claylaptop) (clay@milos.za.net@192.168.3.254) by bart.milos.co.za with SMTP; 6 Dec 2006 15:13:47 -0000 Message-ID: <00ed01c71949$1e277d80$fe03a8c0@claylaptop> From: "Clayton Milos" To: "FreeBSD STABLE" References: <20061206043535.GA1679@crodrigues.org><5ECA6CAB6FE1A04CB80E54344E27BC4A0A31FD83@SAT4MX03.RACKSPACE.CORP> Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 17:13:43 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 Subject: Re: Mounting OpenBSD partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:13:54 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Burke" To: "FreeBSD STABLE" Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 3:18 PM Subject: Re: Mounting OpenBSD partitions > Hi, > > What you need is a GEOM module called nbsd. Here is the link: > http://www.26th.net/public/projects/freebsd/geom_nbsd/geom_nbsd.tgz > > This module is analgous to the default component (geom_bsd I believe > it is called) that understands FreeBSD disklabels, but instead it > understands NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFlyBSD disklabels. > > Once compiled and kldload'ed into the kernel, that module will allow > you to mount your partitions from the OpenBSD disk. However, note that > when I used it, there was some bug that did not allow you to get rid > of the module (cannot rememeber whether it panicked, hung or just > refused to unload), and so I simply rebooted once I had pulled the > data off the drive I needed to. > > Incidentally, it seems a great shame that FreeBSD does not deliver > this support in the base system, it would seem like a VERY useful > thing to be able to do for users and developers who use a couple of > the different BSD systems. > > Thanks and hope this helps, Alex J Burke. Alex You have a very valid point here. FreeBSD's support for other FS' is horiffic. Very little else is supported which I find very sad. There is not even support for Solaris UFS. Something that would be really nice would be support for XFS. I personally think that XFS is a really good FS with nice features. -Clay