From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 1 03:18:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA06614 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 Jan 1998 03:18:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iafnl.es.iaf.nl (uucp@iafnl.es.iaf.nl [195.108.17.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id DAA06605 for ; Thu, 1 Jan 1998 03:18:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by iafnl.es.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA25143 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG); Thu, 1 Jan 1998 12:19:01 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.7/8.6.12) id KAA10709; Thu, 1 Jan 1998 10:54:45 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199801010954.KAA10709@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: mounting a FreeBSD partition on NetBSD or SunOS To: bsdean@gte.net Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 10:54:45 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199801010219.VAA04068@corona.unx.sas.com> from "Brian Dean" at Dec 31, 97 09:19:44 pm X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Brian Dean wrote... > > I have a few questions about filesystems created by one Unix variant > and being mounting by another. > [del] > Thirdly, even if one could do one of the above, would the file system > be mountable? Is the byte-ordering between processor architectures > (big/little endian) an issue here, or are the file system structures > as they reside on the disk, portable across architectures? UFS is not portable between different architectures to the best of my knowledge. _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko @ yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' ---------------- Support your local daemons: run [Free,Net]BSD Unix ------