Apple UFS

Scott Long scottl at freebsd.org
Thu Oct 9 19:01:43 PDT 2003


Brooks Davis wrote:
> Is anyone looking at porting support for Apple UFS volumes from NetBSD?
> It would be useful to be able to mount them.  If someone is bored,
> NetBSD PR#17345 looks like it has have most of what you need:
> 
> http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=17345
> 
> If no one does it, I'll proably break down and do it eventually, but I'm
> hoping someone's already working on it.
> 
> -- Brooks
> 

Unfortunately, FreeBSD never followed NetBSD on making our UFS/FFS code
be endian clean.  I think that it was on the TODO list for UFS2 but
never happened.  It would be very nice to have though =-)

Scott



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