cvs commit: src/sbin/sunlabel Makefile

David O'Brien obrien at FreeBSD.org
Sun Feb 1 22:32:45 PST 2004


On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 07:16:41AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp 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?
...
> >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.

It actually isn't an endianess thing -- both are little endian.  One
would only only mount the 'c' partition partition in the past -- which
really meant one could see the partition starting at 0 ('a' if bootable
disk).  I guess it is possible that GEOM in 5.2.1 would allow one to
mount any partition of an Alpha disk on i386...


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