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- From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
- Subject: Re: SPARCClassic
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.105754.8555@fwi.uva.nl>
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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 10:57:54 GMT
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- guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
-
- >In 5.x, there's a lot more to the boot stuff, but I very much doubt the
- >PROM has to know anything about the file system format. It's probably
- >all done by programs read in *by* the PROM.
-
- >(Besides, the SVR4 file system format isn't *that* different from the
- >SunOS 4.x format.
-
- Actually, the 4.1.x format and Solaris 2.x format must be *really*
- close. Solaris 2.x disks can be connected to SunOS 4.1.x (not 4.0.x)
- machines (and vice versa), unless they use EFT ranges, i.e., values
- for file attributes that are out of range in 4.1.x but are valid
- in the ranges of Extended Filesystem Types.
-
- Casper
-