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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD & BSDI - disk compatibility... (fwd)
To: taob@io.org (Brian Tao)
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 14:35:18 -0700 (MST)
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> > Well, now you come to ask the question, I'm not sure.  I interpreted
> > it to mean that he wanted to access BSD/OS partitions from FreeBSD.
> 
>     If there is a way to read BSD/OS filesystems with Free/NetBSD, I
> could have used a few weeks ago.  :-/  I moved about 20 gigabytes of
> data from our BSD/OS 2.0 server to a NetBSD 1.1 one.  Neither NetBSD
> nor FreeBSD could mount a BSD/OS drive.  Disklabel couldn't make any
> sense of the drive, and the fdisk in the FreeBSD installer showed no
> partitions.

Yet another argument for divorcing FS implementation from logical
device mangement using devfs as a framework.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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