Byteswap and UFS

[Justin Hibbits]

On Wednesday 07 May 2008 23:41:50 Scott Long wrote:
> Justin Hibbits wrote:
> > Are there any plans to add byteswapping into the UFS code, ala NetBSD? 
> > This would be really useful for moving disks between architectures.  I
> > noticed pjd was doing some work with this, but last thing I can find on
> > it is a blog entry from over a year ago.
> >
> > - Justin
>
> While a direct port from NetBSD is probably infeasible due to codebase
> differences, taking the work there as a guideline for doing it in
> FreeBSD would be incredibly useful.  Is it something that you're
> interested in working on?
>
> Scott

It does look like an interesting task, so if nobody else wants to take it, I 
can take a shot at it.  It'll be necessary when I decide to move my file 
server over to FreeBSD/ppc anyway.

- Justin
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