cvs commit: src/sbin/sunlabel Makefile

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sun Feb 1 22:17:02 PST 2004


In message <20040201232018.GD69858 at 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.

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