Mounting OpenBSD partitions

[Clayton Milos]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Burke" <alexjeffburke at gmail.com>
To: "FreeBSD STABLE" <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: Mounting OpenBSD partitions


> Hi,
>
> What you need is a GEOM module called nbsd. Here is the link:
> http://www.26th.net/public/projects/freebsd/geom_nbsd/geom_nbsd.tgz
>
> This module is analgous to the default component (geom_bsd I believe
> it is called) that understands FreeBSD disklabels, but instead it
> understands NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFlyBSD disklabels.
>
> Once compiled and kldload'ed into the kernel, that module will allow
> you to mount your partitions from the OpenBSD disk. However, note that
> when I used it, there was some bug that did not allow you to get rid
> of the module (cannot rememeber whether it panicked, hung or just
> refused to unload), and so I simply rebooted once I had pulled the
> data off the drive I needed to.
>
> Incidentally, it seems a great shame that FreeBSD does not deliver
> this support in the base system, it would seem like a VERY useful
> thing to be able to do for users and developers who use a couple of
> the different BSD systems.
>
> Thanks and hope this helps, Alex J Burke.

Alex

You have a very valid point here.
FreeBSD's support for other FS' is horiffic. Very little else is supported 
which I find very sad.
There is not even support for Solaris UFS. Something that would be really 
nice would be support for XFS.
I personally think that XFS is a really good FS with nice features.

-Clay