From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 27 18:54:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA19999 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 May 1996 18:54:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hamby1.lightside.net (hamby1.lightside.net [198.81.209.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA19994 for ; Mon, 27 May 1996 18:54:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jehamby@localhost) by hamby1.lightside.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA00479; Mon, 27 May 1996 18:57:15 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: hamby1.lightside.net: jehamby owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 18:57:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby X-Sender: jehamby@hamby1 To: Michael Hancock cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Sharing a partition between Solaris & FreeBSD.. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 28 May 1996, Michael Hancock wrote: > On Mon, 27 May 1996, Jake Hamby wrote: > > > 3) Shared FDISK partition for swap space (32MB> > > I haven't tried this yet, but you might have problems with this. > > -mh Didn't have any problems when I tried it on a Zip disk. FreeBSD accepts any partition (not just those ending with b) for swapon, and Solaris accepts any partition or swapfile with swap -a. This is unlike Linux, which accepts swap partitions to have special magic numbers in them, I should note. Again, the benefit of sharing between FreeBSD and Solaris, is that both have derived their filesystem from BSD. Sharing between Linux and FreeBSD, I'm certain, would be much messier, since you'd have to decide between adding FFS to Linux (experimental patch?) or ext2fs to FreeBSD (also experimental). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Jake Hamby| Ask me about Unix, FreeBSD, Solaris, The Tick, Motif, or NT, eh?| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Hi, can I interest you in buying some meat over the phone?" -Lotus commercial