UFS endian-ness

Scott Long scottl at samsco.org
Sun Jul 31 00:23:21 GMT 2005


M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <42EBDC29.2070603 at san.rr.com>
>             Jeremy Baggs <jbaggs at san.rr.com> writes:
> :   I was wondering if anyone has done any recent work with, or knows how
> : (non-)trival it would be adding support for mounting big-endian UFS 
> : filesystems,  such as the one in use on os X.
> 
> It is trivial.  NetBSD just does the swapping on input or output and
> the diffs to do it were small.
> 
> Warner

Do their patches include UFS2 and EA support?

Scott


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