From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] KFS between 4ed and 3ed Message-ID: <20020808071416.Z23133@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Russ Cox on Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 04:57:39PM -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 07:14:16 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d8c826b0-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 04:57:39PM -0400, Russ Cox wrote: > > > What will happen when I try to use the disk in its 4ed impersonation? > > With a 3e kernel, most of the binaries > won't work (new system call interface). > One day I'll unlearn to squeeze all information out of my e-mail for the sake of brevity :-( What I meant was, I'm going to use the disk in its previous role, which was in a strictly 4ed workstation and/or CPU server. Will it even boot? > Kfs shouldn't have tried to ream the disk. > It certainly didn't succeed, as tar of the entire filesystem delivers 929026560 bytes of readable data. What worries me is whether I'll be able to access that filesystem once I reboot the 3ed system I'm using presently. I think I'll back up the whole lot as soon as I have a host to do it to. ++L