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Date:      Tue, 30 Jan 1996 14:35:18 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        taob@io.org (Brian Tao)
Cc:        grog@lemis.de, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD & BSDI - disk compatibility... (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199601302135.OAA07468@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960130015827.14114B-100000@zip.io.org> from "Brian Tao" at Jan 30, 96 02:02:40 am

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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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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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