Re: sharing ffs filesystems between NetBSD and OpenBSD

2006-09-06 Thread Igor Sobrado
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pedro Martelletto writes: On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 07:24:55PM +0200, Igor Sobrado wrote: Indeed, it is a BSD disklabel related problem not a ffs's one. It *is* a FFS problem. The superblocks are different. The BSD disklabel provides information not only about

Re: sharing ffs filesystems between NetBSD and OpenBSD

2006-09-06 Thread Pedro Martelletto
How could I possibly have missed that question... On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 11:13:06AM +0200, Igor Sobrado wrote: By the way, when will ffs2 be available in OpenBSD? From the changelogs I see that there is some work being done in preparation for ffs2, these are excellent news. Kernel support

Re: sharing ffs filesystems between NetBSD and OpenBSD

2006-09-06 Thread Pedro Martelletto
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:53:43AM +0200, Igor Sobrado wrote: but certainly diverging disklabels can explain the problem I outlined in the first message to this thread Uh, yes, maybe. I didn't read it, to be honest. I just looked at the Ted mail you were pointed at. That's definitely talking

Re: sharing ffs filesystems between NetBSD and OpenBSD

2006-09-06 Thread Igor Sobrado
filesystems between NetBSD and OpenBSD In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pedro Martelletto writes: How could I possibly have missed that question... On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 11:13:06AM +0200, Igor Sobrado wrote: By the way, when will ffs2 be available in OpenBSD? From the changelogs I see

Re: sharing ffs filesystems between NetBSD and OpenBSD

2006-09-06 Thread Igor Sobrado
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pedro Martelletto writes: On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:53:43AM +0200, Igor Sobrado wrote: but certainly diverging disklabels can explain the problem I outlined in the first message to this thread Uh, yes, maybe. I didn't read it, to be honest. I just looked at

Re: sharing ffs filesystems between NetBSD and OpenBSD

2006-09-05 Thread Jeff Quast
On 9/5/06, Igor Sobrado [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I am trying to understand an odd behaviour in the Berkeley Fast File System as implemented in both NetBSD and OpenBSD. My main concern [...] Can it be a problem when sharing these drives with non-i386 architectures? Guessing that

Re: sharing ffs filesystems between NetBSD and OpenBSD

2006-09-05 Thread viq
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 11:13, Igor Sobrado wrote: Hello! I am trying to understand an odd behaviour in the Berkeley Fast File System as implemented in both NetBSD and OpenBSD. My main concern is not getting a workaround for this problem (hopefully, I found one) but understanding if

Re: sharing ffs filesystems between NetBSD and OpenBSD

2006-09-05 Thread Igor Sobrado
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeff Quast writes: On 9/5/06, Igor Sobrado [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I am trying to understand an odd behaviour in the Berkeley Fast File System as implemented in both NetBSD and OpenBSD. My main concern [...] Can it be a problem when sharing

Re: sharing ffs filesystems between NetBSD and OpenBSD

2006-09-05 Thread viq
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 19:24, Igor Sobrado wrote: Hi viq! Sorry, I have read your message right now (...I am not subscribed to this mailing list, I was looking at MARC as it seems the most up to date archive, and found your answer.) Thanks a lot for the excellent reference you

Re: sharing ffs filesystems between NetBSD and OpenBSD

2006-09-05 Thread Igor Sobrado
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], viq writes: On Tuesday 05 September 2006 19:24, Igor Sobrado wrote: Thanks a lot for the excellent reference you provided in your email. Indeed, it is a BSD disklabel related problem not a ffs's one. And it seems a serious one! I was about to just mention

Re: sharing ffs filesystems between NetBSD and OpenBSD

2006-09-05 Thread Pedro Martelletto
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 07:24:55PM +0200, Igor Sobrado wrote: Indeed, it is a BSD disklabel related problem not a ffs's one. It *is* a FFS problem. The superblocks are different. -p.