On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 06:07:17PM +0900, Makoto Matsushita wrote: > > Self followup... > > matusita> I'd like to try to bulid FreeBSD/sparc64 on i386 box, but > matusita> due to the lack of bsdlabel(8)'s '-m' option (set machine > matusita> archtecture) on sunlabel(8), newfs(8) cannot work. > > I'm confused something. The fact that newfs(8) on i386 cannot newfs a > filesystem which is sunlabel(8)ed is true, but it does NOT come with > sunlabel(8) itself. Obviously sunlabel(8) doesn't need -m option since > it is used on on sparc64 :-) > > Anyway how can I newfs a filesystem for sparc64 on i386 box? I don't think you can because our UFS on disk format is byte order dependent. Someone probalby needs to import the NetBSD endien-independence stuff. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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