mounting sun UFS file system under FreeBSD stable/10

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Sat, 28 Feb 2015, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:

> > > It looks like VTOC disklabel, try to kldload geom_part_vtoc8.
> > > 
> > 
> > It still cannot help, note that UFS image is big-endian, while
> > the host is most likely x86, which means little-endian.  Our UFS
> > does not perform data normalization.
> 
> I'm afraid of the same :(
> 
> > Also, I believe that Sun did some changes to the filesystem layout,
> > so it is not quite likely that it would work even on right endianess
> > machine.  Best action is to use Solaris live CD to tar the volume.
> 
> Side question: can Solaris LiveCD use iSCSI-exported volume? I then could boot 
> Solaris in virtual machine and try to mount the .img from there...

For the reference and search machines: Solaris/x86 and variants could *not* 
mount big-endian UFS; however, Debian successfuly detects and mounts them 
(read-only, but this was all I needed)

-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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