Re: Does ufs really work?

Andrew C. Esh (andrewes@cnt.com)
Wed, 17 Jul 1996 10:43:09 -0500


>>>>> "loewis" == loewis <loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de> writes:

loewis> In article <4sbpqt$s71@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>, Olaf Erb
loewis> <erb@inss1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
>> I just tried to mount an ufs from FreeBSD, but there's
>> something really broken:

loewis> I understand the ufs/ffs versions of SunOS 4/5 and FreeBSD
loewis> are mutually incompatible, such that even FreeBSD cannot
loewis> mount Solaris partitions. AFAIK, ufs support in Linux was
loewis> tested only with SunOS disks.

Is there development going on which will provide us with a driver
which can deal with Solaris 2.4, 2.5, and 2.5.1 disks? Not just
partitions, or filesystems. I would like to be able to install a
Solaris disk in my PC and get Linux to mount it. I have a real need to
be doing interesting things to such disks with cheap old PC hardware. We
have a lot of both of them.

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