Re: Hello everyone ...

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 05:24:37PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 05:16:39PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 05:09:15PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > > > > On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > > > >     hda1 (DH0)         2-  18 (  8 Meg)     muF\53 (0x6d754653), bootable pri 2
> > > > > >     hda2 (DH1)        19- 526 (250 Meg)     muF\53 (0x6d754653)
> > > > > 
> > > > > What are those ?
> > > > 
> > > > AmigaOS FFS International for MultiUser. The first one is System3.1:, the
> > > > second one is App:.
> > > 
> > > Do you perchance have any documentation on this file system and how to
> > > detect it ?
> > 
> > It's 99% backwards compatible with AFFS.
> > 
> > However, if a user has reformatted his partition using muFS, the ID in the
> > bootblock won't be DOSx, but muFx (x = \0..\5) or muFS. AFFS in Linux knows
> > about this.
> 
> So the position of the boot and root block are the same, as well as the
> root block eyecatcher (type is 2, subtype is 1).

Yes, it's almost the same as AFFS.

> I think the problem comes from ufs not being m68k clean, maybe if it did
> know about muFS it would be able to detect it and not crash on the ufs
> problem. 

I don't have muFS on the second disk, and there it still crashes.

> That said, libparted doesn't seem to be really all that ready to handle
> multiple filesystem variants.

I have only one file system type on the second disk.

BTW, removing the (un)register calls for UFS didn't help, as expected (the
assertion just causes UFS not being registered).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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