From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 5 20:42:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA15330 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 20:42:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from Kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA15325 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 20:42:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from Mailbox.mcs.com (Mailbox.mcs.com [192.160.127.87]) by Kitten.mcs.com (8.8.2/8.8.Beta.3) with ESMTP id WAA11449 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 22:42:08 -0600 (CST) Received: from Jupiter.Mcs.Net (karl@Jupiter.mcs.net [192.160.127.88]) by Mailbox.mcs.com (8.8.2/8.8.2) with ESMTP id WAA00512 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 22:42:07 -0600 (CST) Received: (from karl@localhost) by Jupiter.Mcs.Net (8.8.2/8.8.2) id WAA05013 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 22:42:06 -0600 (CST) From: Karl Denninger Message-Id: <199611060442.WAA05013@Jupiter.Mcs.Net> Subject: BSDI mount - - the patch posted to me works (somewhat) To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 22:42:06 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi folks, Just wanted to report that the hack/patch which Matt Thomas sent to me DOES work to allow BSDI disks to be mounted. Yes, its ugly, and I understand that it will only work for disks that are one big BSDI slice and partition (if I'm reading the code right) but that's all I need for my purposes. The kernel bitches during the mount about the magic number for the partition being wrong, but it fscks and mounts anyway, and once mounted doesn't blow up. At least not so far :-) Thanks. It isn't perfect, but it'll do what I need. Given this patch, I assume REAL support for this kind of thing wouldn't be hard to figure out and do. At the very least it doesn't look like committing the patch would hurt anything. Thoughts? -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity http://www.mcs.net/~karl | T1's from $600 monthly to FULL DS-3 Service | 32 Analog Prefixes, 13 ISDN, Web servers $75/mo Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| Email to "info@mcs.net" WWW: http://www.mcs.net/ Fax: [+1 312 248-9865] | 2 FULL DS-3 Internet links; 400Mbps B/W Internal