On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:01:27PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mic J wrote: > > what about making an NFS export, then the underlying file system wouldnt > > matter? > > > > What about using sshfs? > > First, remember I was talking about two partitions on the same machine, so > nothing like NFS (which requires processes on sender and receiver) can > possibly > work (else I understand nothing about NFS, which I suppose isn't completely > impossible). > > I'd never heard of sshfs before, so I had to go investigate it. Seems like a > really neat idea, but (I *think*, and this time, I really might be wrong) that > it's much like NFS in needing processes on sener and receiver, which again, in > the same machine, can't work. > > My problem is that the FreeBSD side of this match is a RAID1 mirror, using > FreeBSD's twa driver. So far, I can't find that driver for OpenBSD, but I'm > still looking (it's the AMCC 3Ware 9650-4 Raid controller). This means I > CAN'T > even see the FreeBSD partitions from OpenBSD, it needs to be FreeBSD looking > into OpenBSD. I've a couple of WD640 drives on my RAID1, so it's got about > 600G > of storage. I have 500G dedicated to FreeBSD, and as soon as I find the > OpenBSD > driver for this controller, OpenBSD gets that remaining 100G. At the moment, > OpenBSD has a 80 WD junk drive I found laying around (EIDE), so all of my > experimentation HAS TO BE FreeBSD's attempting to mount the OpenBSD's > partitions.
If your generic kernel can't see it, chances are pretty high that either the driver isn't there or that developers didn't think it stable enough to put in. > I know I could use something like FAT32, but I'm really unhappy > (philosophically) to use anything like FAT-n. If I find any other sort of > OpenBSD filesystem, that FreeBSD can mount, I'm off to the races, but it has > to > work without needing OpenBSD to actually be active. I think both support ext2fs. Might be worth a try? You'll probably have to make it on a partition instead of inside a disklabel, I don't know. > Look, I think I've really bothered this list more than can reasonably allowed > by > now, if I don't see a solution, I'm going to see if maybe I can let this die. > I've found a way to move the data I need, by transiting a 2nd machine. Slow > it > may be, but I'm getting embarrassed already at bothering you folks too much. If you describe your problem (like you have done) this list usually doesn't mind (much) as long as OpenBSD is involved. -- Ariane
