On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 12:30:51PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > From kostik...@gmail.com Fri Feb 8 12:25:21 2013 > > On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 12:01:41PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > I need to transfer some files from sparc64 -current > > box onto amd64 9.1-RELEASE laptop. > > The amd64 laptop has no network connection yet, > > so I'm trying to achive this with a USB flash drive.=20 > >=20 > > The problem is that I always end up with > >=20 > > # mount /dev/da0p1 /mnt/ > > mount: /dev/da0p1: Invalid argument > > #=20 > >=20 > > If I do newfs on the sparc64 box, then I can't > > mount it on the amd64 box, and vice versa. > >=20 > > I tried just "newfs /dev/da0", and using gpart, > > e.g.: > >=20 > > # gpart show /dev/da0 > > =3D> 34 4029373 da0 GPT (1.9G) > > 34 2048 1 freebsd-ufs (1.0M) > > 2082 4027325 - free - (1.9G) > >=20 > > # > >=20 > > and then "newfs /dev/da0p1", or similar, > > but no luck. > >=20 > > I tried sparc64 VTOC8 partition scheme too - no help. > >=20 > > I can mount the device and use it as expected, > > i.e. copy files to/from it on either box, but > > the other box doesn't seem to understand the file > > system. > >=20 > > I tried loading various modules in desperation, > > e.g. on the sparc64 side: > >=20 > > # kldstat=20 > > Id Refs Address Size Name > > 1 9 0xc0000000 a80e58 kernel > > 2 1 0x101bca000 104000 geom_part_mbr.ko > > 3 1 0x101cce000 110000 geom_label.ko > > 4 1 0x101dde000 108000 geom_part_gpt.ko > > #=20 > >=20 > > but still no use.=20 > >=20 > > Am I missing something simple? > > UFS on FreeBSD is not endian-agnostic. It uses the host byte order > for multibyte values. > > As result, you can share UFS volumes only between hosts with the same > endianess, like i386/amd64/ia64 little endian or sparc64/mips big > endian. > AFAIK, NetBSD has such support. > > Wow... I didn't realise that. > I thought UFS (1 or 2) takes all care > of endian-ness. Do you mean that even > I had say a SCSI internal disk with UFS2, > I couldn't move it between a little and > a big endian freebsd boxes? > > So what is the advice for transferring data > via USB in such cases? Any other gpart partition > I could use? >
FAT should work and ZFS is also endian-agnostic. I don't know how well these code paths of the latter are tested though and we seem to have grown bugs in this regard at least in the area of intra- ZFS-version compatibility (which due to lack of understanding of the ZFS internals I'm not able to fix) since the split from (Open) Solaris. Marius _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
