Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 08:15:55 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/sunlabel Makefile Message-ID: <3568.1075706155@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 Feb 2004 22:32:40 PST." <20040202063240.GA21753@dragon.nuxi.com>
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In message <20040202063240.GA21753@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes:
>On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 07:16:41AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> >> > You can't really see an Alpha disk, on an i386 box. And both of them use
>> >> > 'bsdlabel'. How do you propose to fix that?
>...
>> >You misread the question. What I spoke of was to take a disk from a
>> >working Alpha system and try to move it to an x86 machine and mount it.
>>
>> Well, it is on our list of things we _want_ to be able to do, but
>> until do we the endianess-agnostic version of UFS we can't actually
>> do that.
>
>It actually isn't an endianess thing -- both are little endian. One
>would only only mount the 'c' partition partition in the past -- which
>really meant one could see the partition starting at 0 ('a' if bootable
>disk). I guess it is possible that GEOM in 5.2.1 would allow one to
>mount any partition of an Alpha disk on i386...
Ohh, right I was thinking of sparc64. On 5.2 you should be able to
see all your partitions and mount them.
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