[ug-bosug] a few questions...

[Ananth A]

On 7/11/06, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com> wrote:
>   Here's an easy way out. Boot from BeleniX 0.4.4 CD and execute

d/l the iso is gonna take time ... :(


> > also, can i view my usb pendrive under solaris using a similar command ?
> > i found a /dev/usb/mass-storage device after i plugged it in but was
> > unable to mount it... any thoughts ??
>
>   It should mount automatically, if your USB pendrive is formatted as
>   FAT. Also ensure that Volume Manager is running using:

it was not detected with the 0.4.3 live cd either. Nor was any of the
other fat(32) partitions.  will check about the volume manager.

> > is *bsd ufs2 different from the solaris ufs ???  can i mount a bsd ufs
> > under solaris or vice versa ??
>
>   It is different though there are similarities as well. Someone has to
>   port it.

ok.

>   Linux kernel modules are GPL and cannot be simply ported to OpenSolaris
>   and vice versa.
>   It will be a violation of GPL. However userland stuff is fine. FUSE is being
>   implemented on OpenSolaris which will allow userland filesystem modules
>   to be ported onto OpenSolaris. See:
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/fuse/

Thanks for the info!

Ananth