UFS endian-ness

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sun Jul 31 03:18:02 GMT 2005


In message: <42EC19DF.3020306 at samsco.org>
            Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org> writes:
: 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?

I checked prior to ufs2 being imported...

Warner


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