Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 06:47:38 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: Enhance GEOM to mount NetBSD partitions Message-ID: <443F8BDA.4070802@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20060414112816.GA1588@schweikhardt.net> References: <20060414112816.GA1588@schweikhardt.net>
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Jens Schweikhardt wrote: > hello, world\n > > it appears FreeBSD is only able to mount a very limited set of partitions > in a slice with sysid = 169 (NetBSD). To be precise, FreeBSD can only mount > the a: partition of such a slice, because it's the only partition for which > an entry in /dev exists, e.g. I can "mount /dev/ad0s1 /dev". This provides > access to the NetBSD root partition (wd0a in NetBSD lingo). Other partitions > within that slice, e.g. /home on what NetBSD calls wd0e are inaccessible. > > We all know NetBSD has a different (and shall we say counterintuitive) > philosophy regarding disklabels and partition numbering. I find it > slightly ashaming that we can't even mount our brother BSD's UFS1 and > UFS2 in general at least on architectures using the canonical MBR format. > > Is anyone here who has more than two out of {time, interest, ability} to > implement a geom provider (is that the correct terminus technicus?) for > FreeBSD allowing to mount all partitions in a slice with sysid = 169 > (NetBSD)? The difference of a NetBSD disklabel appears to be the number > of partitions (16 instead of 8) and the semantics of the c: ("complete > slice") and d: ("complete disk") entries on i386. > > If you guys are swamped with other interesting projects, would anyone > be willing to be a mentor for the upcoming Google "Summer of Code"? The best help I can give you, is to point you to this thread: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=479157+0+archive/2006/freebsd-current/20060319.freebsd-current Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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