Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:19:50 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Teach '-m' option of bsdlabel(8) to sunlabel(8) Message-ID: <20031114181950.GB28455@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20031114180717L.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> References: <20031114175836D.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20031114180717L.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
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--s2ZSL+KKDSLx8OML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 06:07:17PM +0900, Makoto Matsushita wrote: >=20 > Self followup... >=20 > matusita> I'd like to try to bulid FreeBSD/sparc64 on i386 box, but > matusita> due to the lack of bsdlabel(8)'s '-m' option (set machine > matusita> archtecture) on sunlabel(8), newfs(8) cannot work. >=20 > I'm confused something. The fact that newfs(8) on i386 cannot newfs a > filesystem which is sunlabel(8)ed is true, but it does NOT come with > sunlabel(8) itself. Obviously sunlabel(8) doesn't need -m option since > it is used on on sparc64 :-) >=20 > Anyway how can I newfs a filesystem for sparc64 on i386 box? I don't think you can because our UFS on disk format is byte order dependent. Someone probalby needs to import the NetBSD endien-independence stuff. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --s2ZSL+KKDSLx8OML Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/tRzEXY6L6fI4GtQRAoEBAJ0XJ1QXqcT8kFbBx2PIYUtRYg0FpACgyeA1 XyLF8m2mfuFZMmygBgzTlDQ= =ODo1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --s2ZSL+KKDSLx8OML--
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