Implementing a FS: some help required

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Apr 30 02:36:02 PDT 2003


In message <1051692657.296.15.camel at timon.memphis.mephi.ru>, "Artem 'Zazoobr' I
gnatjev" writes:
>Hello
>
>I've recently came accross an issue with solaris/x86 hard, which was
>damaged so much, that it caused native solaris fsck dump a core. Since
>there was some important data on that hard, I started playing with that
>hard. It's said that Solaris uses UFS derived from 4.2BSD, and after a
>while I was able to mount it.
>I've found their disklabel structure and now I want to make BSD
>recognize it, so that it will automatically detect layout of their
>partitions.
>Where can i find docs on adding implementations of others filesystems
>into  kernel?

Freebsd 5.x already recognizes SUN disklabels, just add the
GEOM_SUNLABEL to your kernel configuration.

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