Ken Nakata wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure if this is enough to convince you, but I could
> successfully newfs and newfs_msdos an "unknown" partition.  This
> partition of type "unknown" is actually a free area, and not marked
> either as 4.2BSD or as MSDOS, yet I can mount it (FFS or MSDOS).
> Unfortunately, there doesn't exist newfs_ext2fs on NetBSD, so my
> experiment was limited... (I doubt MacLinux runs usefully on my boxes
> just yet).

That's pretty convincing :-)
 
> > According to a post from Manuel Bouyer to current-users, I think, the
> > bi-endian ffs stuff was in the 1.3 branch, so it should be in 1.3.2
> > (unless I was reading the posting wrong).
> 
> As Bill correctly pointed out, if the filesystem in question is in
> fact big endian, it is impossible to mount the partition without
> *modifying* NetBSD's ext2fs implementation (i.e. recompiling the
> kernel).

Yeah, that makes sense.  What a pain.

Thanks for the clarification, everyone!

Later.

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