cross-arch filesystem mounts in current?

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 10:49:23AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 01:46:46PM -0500, Aditya wrote:
> > I have an IDE drive with a FreeBSD 4.x filesystem created on a i386 machine
> > that I'm trying to mount on a sparc64 machine (Netra X1) running -CURRENT and
> > it's unclear how to do it -- any hints?
> 
> I don't think this is possible on FreeBSD, because of the different
> endianness of the filesystems.
> 
Ask Ian Dowse (iedowse) for a bswapfs(8) utility, for the time being.
I used this tool when producing cross-arch releases.  Use at your own
risk.  A backup of a file system question would be in order.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
FreeBSD committer
ru at FreeBSD.org
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