Re: FFS differnces in Dragonfly and FreeBSD

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Armin Arh wrote:
> I am currently running FreeBSD-6.2PRERELEASE, which i installed
> as some 5.X from scratch, so filesystem is possibly this ufs2 thingy.

yes, quite possible.  we don't do ufs2.

> Would it be possible to make FreeBSD and DragonFly to coexist on
> my FFS partitions?

yes, but probably you want to pick different partitions for each OS :)

> (At boot time i have to pick the correct bootloader and kernel etc.,
>  but this is not too hard...)

you should rather pick the right partition/kernel.  the binaries are not compatible, so you wouldn't have much luck sharing them.

> How about making an extra root partition, e.g. /dev/ad0s2g, for DragonFly,
> then mount my user stuff from there?

Yes, but be sure to also put there /usr and probably /var.

What you need to do is:

1. install freebsd, leave a partition or two for dragonfly.
2. use ufs1 for all data you want to share (probably /home).
3. install dragonfly to the remaining partition(s)
4. from both OS, mount /home
5. to boot one or the other you can either use loader and set currdev/kernel to one or the other root partition
6. or you use grub to load different loaders.

should work this way

cheers
 simon

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