Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 22:32:40 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/sunlabel Makefile Message-ID: <20040202063240.GA21753@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <3147.1075702601@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <20040201232018.GD69858@dragon.nuxi.com> <3147.1075702601@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 07:16:41AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >> > You can't really see an Alpha disk, on an i386 box. And both of them use
> >> > 'bsdlabel'. How do you propose to fix that?
...
> >You misread the question. What I spoke of was to take a disk from a
> >working Alpha system and try to move it to an x86 machine and mount it.
>
> Well, it is on our list of things we _want_ to be able to do, but
> until do we the endianess-agnostic version of UFS we can't actually
> do that.
It actually isn't an endianess thing -- both are little endian. One
would only only mount the 'c' partition partition in the past -- which
really meant one could see the partition starting at 0 ('a' if bootable
disk). I guess it is possible that GEOM in 5.2.1 would allow one to
mount any partition of an Alpha disk on i386...
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