Path: utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!uunet!nuchat!moray!siswat!buck
From: buck@siswat.UUCP (A. Lester Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: 6386 WGS Questions
Keywords: Compatability Questions
Message-ID: <472@siswat.UUCP>
Date: 12 Nov 89 17:26:15 GMT
References: <6358@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> <4615@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> <16@zds-ux.UUCP>
Organization: Photon Graphics,  Houston
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In article <16@zds-ux.UUCP>, gerry@zds-ux.UUCP (Gerry Gleason) writes:
> Wait a minute, if you can read the physical format, you should be able to
> mount it.  Isn't a System V file system a System V file system (with the
> possible exception of version skews).

A quick look at filsys.h from various vendor's versions of System V will
show that the super block format, at least, varies all over the map.
Without another file system switch entry, the only way I could see to
mount a foreign System V filesystem was to have a _really_ smart driver
that translated requests for the super block.  There might be other
problems with this scheme, since I never actually tried it...

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A. Lester Buck		...!texbell!moray!siswat!buck