Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 15:09:10 +0100 (MEZ) From: wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de To: robert@steffi.mnsinc.com Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting a NeXTSTEP filesystem? Message-ID: <199602231408.PAA22820@tubkom.prz.tu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <199602230339.WAA01606@steffi.mnsinc.com> from "Robert Nicholson" at Feb 22, 96 10:39:03 pm
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Robert Nicholson wrote: > > > Can it be done in 2.1? I don't think so. NEXTSTEP ufs partitions store all infos in the superblocks, inodes etc. in big endian format. That allows that the same NS ufs file system can be mounted on all NS supported architectures (i486, m86k, HPPA, Sparc). E.g. the Linux ufs driver also couldn't mount NS ufs until it was patched to convert the big endian values in the file system structures to little endian before using them. (It works now, although still read-only). > a NeXTSTEP partition is suppose to be a 4.3 type partition. Yes, but big endian. AFAIK the FreeBSD ufs doesn't take care of this yet. Thomas -- Thomas Wolfram email: wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de PRZ/EANTC, Technical University of Berlin voice: +49 30 314 27606 http://www.prz.tu-berlin.de/~wolf fax: +49 30 314 25986 _____________________________________________________________________________ _____S__I__C____T__R__A__N__S__I__T____G__L__O__R__I__A____M__U__N__D__I_____
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199602231408.PAA22820>