From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 27 14:36:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA16230 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 May 1996 14:36:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA16216 for ; Mon, 27 May 1996 14:36:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA09137; Mon, 27 May 1996 14:34:48 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199605272134.OAA09137@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Sharing a partition between Solaris & FreeBSD.. To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 14:34:47 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Jake Hamby" at May 27, 96 12:51:15 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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.