Byteswap and UFS

Bruce M. Simpson bms at FreeBSD.org
Fri May 9 08:39:28 UTC 2008


Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> I did the read-only part, ie. you can mount UFS file system read-only
> created on system with different byte order than yours. Read-write
> support is much harder. Also the NetBSD's way of doing it is very
> intrusive to the UFS source - number of changes is a scary. I was trying
> to do it a bit differently (on lower level), which went nice for
> read-only, but may be harder for read-write. The code was never
> committed.
>   

Surely Kirk is willing to review something on this scale, and give his 
buy-in? The lack of this functionality is going to impede progress on 
supporting embedded systems.

cheers
BMS



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