Re: Ultrix and SunOS FFS compatibility?

Chris Hanson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Nov 21, 2025, at 6:13 PM, Mouse <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Should FFS on NetBSD be automatically compatible with FFS on Ultrix and SunO$
> 
> Mostly, I think.

That's what I had hoped too. :)

>> I tried to mount an ISO yesterday with a raw Ultrix filesystem, but the moun$
> 
> Did you use a kernel with FFS_EI?  If not, the filesystem's endianness
> has to match your host's.

I was using NetBDS 10.1 on amd64 with a GENERIC kernel, so the endianness matched my host's.

  -- Chris
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