Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 07:16:41 +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: <3147.1075702601@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 Feb 2004 15:20:18 PST." <20040201232018.GD69858@dragon.nuxi.com>
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In message <20040201232018.GD69858@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes: >On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 10:42:19AM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 09:27:07PM -0800, David O'Brien 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? >> > >> Of course you can -- and that's how we create them during the >> cross release snapshots (the -m option of bsdlabel(8) helps). > >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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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