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