From owner-freebsd-fs Fri Apr 30 14:38:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from inet16.us.oracle.com (inet16.us.oracle.com [192.86.155.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A3611554A for ; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:38:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from klh@us.oracle.com) Received: from churchy20.us.oracle.com (churchy20.us.oracle.com [144.25.80.97]) by inet16.us.oracle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA23680; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:38:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by churchy20.us.oracle.com (5.59.11/37.7) id AA18810; Fri, 30 Apr 99 14:38:30 PDT Date: Fri, 30 Apr 99 14:38:30 PDT From: Ken Harrenstien To: Doug Rabson Cc: Ken Harrenstien , freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When is a FFS not a FFS? In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 30 Apr 1999 21:58:05 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > If someone like myself were to find the time to make this possible (by > > borrowing NetBSD code) would it be permitted in FreeBSD? Just want to > > be clear whether this is due to policy or simple lack of resources. > > I wouldn't mind this functionality being available. It might actually be > handy to move disks between i386 and alpha (as long as no-one expects to > be able to boot a disk on both platforms). OK, I'll take a look at the find-disklabel code in both FreeBSD and NetBSD and try some experiments if it seems within my capabilities. As for being handy, I must reiterate that it most definitely is! I doubt I have any more free time than you do, but this feature is worth enough to me that I'm making some. Big data (not boot) LVD drives, multi-platform environment, interest in testing FreeBSD if it isn't too hard to set up... QED. Thanks again for the background, that saved me a fair bit of digging! --Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message