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Subject: Re: Problem sharing UFS2 between PPC and i386
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Hi Christopher,

> Could this have to do with big endian vs. little endian (just an idea, I have 
> little clue myself what this is)?

  You got it. FreeBSD can only read UFS filesystems created in native 
byte order. There's no equivalent of NetBSD's FFS_EI to allow 
byte-switching in the filesystem code.

later,

Peter.