We mounted a floppy that contained a ufs filesystem created on a DEC Alpha running Digital Unix 4.0D on both A Red Hat 5.2 and 5.1 machine. and Get the following: [root@braindead /root]# mount -t ufs /dev/fd0 /mnt/m ufs_read_super: fs_nindir 2048 != 3 ufs_read_super: fucking Sun blows me ufs_read_super: fs last mounted on "/mnt" ufs_read_super: fs needs fsck ufs_read_inode: file too big ino 2 dev 2/0, faking size ufs_read_super: inopb 64 We figured you might like to know that some (not us) might find the "ufs_read_super: fucking Sun blows me" comment might be offensive. Almost forgot... the floppy does mount but we can't read any thing on it. Haven't tried a Sun created UFS floppy but I suspect you'll see the same.
fixed in kernel 2.2.5 and later.