Re: Dec File systems

[allen <allen suberic net>]

On Wed, Jun 2 1999, Tuff Guy wrote:
> You might also want to add support for BSD disklables. The 2.2 kernel allows
> you to write the FS now, I think. I know it was restricted to read only in the
> past. But UFS has to be built into the kernel as well. 

(I've deleted the original message; sorry for the lack of context.)

If you want to read an OSF disklabel under Linux/Alpha, you shouldn't have to
do anything special--at least in 2.2.* kernels, support for OSF partition tables
is included by default (that is, ifdef __alpha__).  The OSF disklabel is
similar, but not identical, to the BSD disklabel. 

-allen