From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 10 16:12:44 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA08802 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 May 1995 16:12:44 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA08796 for ; Wed, 10 May 1995 16:12:41 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA08704; Wed, 10 May 1995 16:12:25 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199505102312.QAA08704@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: question on sun cds To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 16:12:25 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199505102306.RAA19730@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at May 10, 95 05:06:19 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 816 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Greetings, > I have a need, from time to time, to read SunOS ufs formatted > cds. These are from both SunOS 4.1.x and SunOS 5.x, aka Solaris. Is > there something I've overlooked in FreeBSD 2.0R (or -current or 2.0.5) > that will allow me to do this, ideally as a normal file system? No, you have not over looked anything. There is a fundemental problem that makes this very hard to do. Can you say BIG_INDIAN vs LITTLE_INDIAN. I thought so.... > Baring functional code, anybody have any ideas on how to procede? Major reworking of the ufs layer to do INDIAN conversion based on volume label magic values. Can you say slow ufs after you do this? -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD