mount: /dev/da0p1: Invalid argument
Marius Strobl
marius at alchemy.franken.de
Fri Feb 8 12:45:20 UTC 2013
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 12:30:51PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> From kostikbel at gmail.com Fri Feb 8 12:25:21 2013
>
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 12:01:41PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > I need to transfer some files from sparc64 -current
> > box onto amd64 9.1-RELEASE laptop.
> > The amd64 laptop has no network connection yet,
> > so I'm trying to achive this with a USB flash drive.=20
> >=20
> > The problem is that I always end up with
> >=20
> > # mount /dev/da0p1 /mnt/
> > mount: /dev/da0p1: Invalid argument
> > #=20
> >=20
> > If I do newfs on the sparc64 box, then I can't
> > mount it on the amd64 box, and vice versa.
> >=20
> > I tried just "newfs /dev/da0", and using gpart,
> > e.g.:
> >=20
> > # gpart show /dev/da0
> > =3D> 34 4029373 da0 GPT (1.9G)
> > 34 2048 1 freebsd-ufs (1.0M)
> > 2082 4027325 - free - (1.9G)
> >=20
> > #
> >=20
> > and then "newfs /dev/da0p1", or similar,
> > but no luck.
> >=20
> > I tried sparc64 VTOC8 partition scheme too - no help.
> >=20
> > I can mount the device and use it as expected,
> > i.e. copy files to/from it on either box, but
> > the other box doesn't seem to understand the file
> > system.
> >=20
> > I tried loading various modules in desperation,
> > e.g. on the sparc64 side:
> >=20
> > # kldstat=20
> > Id Refs Address Size Name
> > 1 9 0xc0000000 a80e58 kernel
> > 2 1 0x101bca000 104000 geom_part_mbr.ko
> > 3 1 0x101cce000 110000 geom_label.ko
> > 4 1 0x101dde000 108000 geom_part_gpt.ko
> > #=20
> >=20
> > but still no use.=20
> >=20
> > Am I missing something simple?
>
> UFS on FreeBSD is not endian-agnostic. It uses the host byte order
> for multibyte values.
>
> As result, you can share UFS volumes only between hosts with the same
> endianess, like i386/amd64/ia64 little endian or sparc64/mips big endian.
> AFAIK, NetBSD has such support.
>
> Wow... I didn't realise that.
> I thought UFS (1 or 2) takes all care
> of endian-ness. Do you mean that even
> I had say a SCSI internal disk with UFS2,
> I couldn't move it between a little and
> a big endian freebsd boxes?
>
> So what is the advice for transferring data
> via USB in such cases? Any other gpart partition
> I could use?
>
FAT should work and ZFS is also endian-agnostic. I don't know how
well these code paths of the latter are tested though and we seem
to have grown bugs in this regard at least in the area of intra-
ZFS-version compatibility (which due to lack of understanding of
the ZFS internals I'm not able to fix) since the split from (Open)
Solaris.
Marius
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