Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 14:34:47 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Sharing a partition between Solaris & FreeBSD.. Message-ID: <199605272134.OAA09137@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.AUX.3.91.960527124018.10288C-100000@covina.lightside.com> from "Jake Hamby" at May 27, 96 12:51:15 pm
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> It looks like it's practical, based on experiments I performed with Zip > disks, to format a HD partition (or Zip disk) with a 4.3BSD file system, > and share it between FreeBSD and Solaris x86. Unfortunately, both OS's > use different (incompatible) "slicing" mechanisms to put several > partitions in one FDISK partition, but if you limit things to one UFS > partition per filesystem, it should work, using the following /dev names: This was, in fact, my #1 motivation for wanting physical-to-logical device drivers implemented in the DEVFS implementation space. I must admit that I wanted it for the OSF/1 disklabel, and the IBM JFS code I've been hacking on off and on for the PPC port, but the principle is the same. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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