Re: Regarding the ULTRIX and OSF1 compats

[Jason Thorpe]

> On Mar 10, 2019, at 9:52 AM, Jason Thorpe <thor...@me.com> wrote:
> 
>> This more likely means that it was an old UFS disk that we do support by
>> default in our UFS/FFS code, but I hardly see how this could be related to
>> COMPAT_ULTRIX.
> 
> No, I'm sure he actually means an old Ultrix disk.  Doing that sort of thing 
> was quite common back in the early NetBSD days.  NetBSD/pmax supports the 
> DECstation disk label format because that's what the boot ROM understands, 
> and the NetBSD can read/write the Ultrix UFS because it's vanilla 4.3BSD.

...to clarify "mounting root on an old Ultrix disk".

-- thorpej