From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id OAA73748 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 14:20:14 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id OAA05217 for linux-list; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 14:19:52 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id OAA62808 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 14:19:50 -0800 (PST) mail_from (shaver@netscape.com) Received: from netscape.com (h-205-217-237-46.netscape.com [205.217.237.46]) by sgi.sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id OAA00867 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 14:19:49 -0800 (PST) mail_from (shaver@netscape.com) Received: from tintin.mcom.com (tintin.mcom.com [205.217.233.42]) by netscape.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA06476 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 14:19:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from netscape.com ([205.217.243.67]) by tintin.mcom.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.0) with ESMTP id F508P000.LEY; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 14:19:48 -0800 Message-ID: <368FED40.12D7952E@netscape.com> Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 17:20:48 -0500 From: Mike Shaver Organization: Just Another Snake Cult X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.1.131 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Olson CC: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: EFS volume descriptors References: <199901032216.OAA36969@anchor.engr.sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Dave Olson wrote: > Nothing is at block 0 of the filesystem. Historically, back to v6 > unix, there were things like badblock tables there, so many filesystems > for unix have simply not used block 0. efs does not use it. Drat. So do I need the user to tell me if it's an EFS CD vs. an EFS partition, so that I know to use the voldesc or not? I guess I could register a second fstype ("efscd" or some such) and make the user use that. Mike -- 108334.35 92988.48