UFS2 status in 4.3?

2008-03-15 Thread Michael Dexter
Hello, I didn't see any mention of changes to UFS2 support in 4.3: http://www.openbsd.org/43.html#new Will it still require a kernel recompilation to use? Perhaps no? http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/conf/GENERIC?v=OPENBSD Is it bootable? Thanks, Michael.

Re: UFS2 status in 4.3?

2008-03-15 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 08:13:00PM +0200, Michael Dexter wrote: > Hello, > > I didn't see any mention of changes to UFS2 support in 4.3: > > http://www.openbsd.org/43.html#new > > Will it still require a kernel recompilation to use? 4.2 and 4.3 have ffs2 support. No recompilation needed, whic

Re: UFS2 status in 4.3?

2008-03-15 Thread Timothy Wilson
Hello, I think Michael meant UFS, as in what FreeBSD uses. I too would like to know the status on this, as I have a FreeBSD machine that could become an OpenBSD machine :) Kind regards, Timothy On 16/03/2008, Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 08:13:00PM +0200, Mi

Re: UFS2 status in 4.3?

2008-03-15 Thread Unix Fan
Timothy Wilson wrote: > Hello, > > I think Michael meant UFS, as in what FreeBSD uses. I too would like > to know the status on this, as I have a FreeBSD machine that could > become an OpenBSD machine :) > > Kind regards, They are the same thing, "FFS" is an acronym for Berkeley's "Fast

Re: UFS2 status in 4.3?

2008-03-15 Thread Timothy Wilson
Ah my mistake. I have to specify either 44bsd or ufs2 when I mount BSD partitions in Linux, so I thought they were different. On 15 Mar 2008 21:37:45 -0700, Unix Fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Timothy Wilson wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I think Michael meant UFS, as in what FreeBSD uses. I t

Re: UFS2 status in 4.3?

2008-03-16 Thread Jeffrey 'jf' Lim
On 15 Mar 2008 21:37:45 -0700, Unix Fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > They are the same thing, "FFS" is an acronym for Berkeley's "Fast File > System" - which is a decedent of AT&T UFS (Unix File System). > > I agree, the naming conventions between the BSD's are unique... but see > the following

Re: UFS2 status in 4.3?

2008-03-16 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Jeffrey 'jf' Lim wrote: On 15 Mar 2008 21:37:45 -0700, Unix Fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: They are the same thing, "FFS" is an acronym for Berkeley's "Fast File System" - which is a decedent of AT&T UFS (Unix File System). I agree, the naming conventions between the BSD's are unique... but