From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 13 11:13:53 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA07858 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 11:13:53 -0700 Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA07852 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 11:13:51 -0700 Received: from crevenia.parc.xerox.com ([13.2.116.11]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <15594(1)>; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 10:52:47 PDT Received: from localhost by crevenia.parc.xerox.com with SMTP id <177475>; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 10:52:31 -0700 X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.1 5/23/95 To: "Jason T. Nelson" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can 2.0.1 mount NEXTSTEP disks? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 12 Oct 95 11:53:05 PDT." <9510121853.AA09535@purcell.jlc.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 10:52:30 PDT From: Bill Fenner Message-Id: <95Oct13.105231pdt.177475@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In message <9510121853.AA09535@purcell.jlc.net> you write: >I was hoping I could mount the NEXTSTEP disk because it's a 4.3 filesystem, >but I've been unsuccessful so far. Can it be done? If not, why not? One reason why not is the NeXTStep filesystem is a big-endian filesystem, even under NeXTStep 486. (One of the reasons that NeXTStep won't run on 386's - byte-swapping is too slow). Bill