From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 17 09:52:04 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04B9937B401 for ; Sat, 17 May 2003 09:52:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pit.databus.com (p70-227.acedsl.com [66.114.70.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A67243FAF for ; Sat, 17 May 2003 09:52:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from barney@pit.databus.com) Received: from pit.databus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pit.databus.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4HGq2iK033185; Sat, 17 May 2003 12:52:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from barney@pit.databus.com) Received: (from barney@localhost) by pit.databus.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h4HGq2eX033184; Sat, 17 May 2003 12:52:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 12:52:02 -0400 From: Barney Wolff To: matt Message-ID: <20030517165202.GA33037@pit.databus.com> References: <3EC572EE.2050501@btc.adaptec.com> <20030517090901.X70438-100000@grogged.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030517090901.X70438-100000@grogged.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.32 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sparc64 newfs vs. i386 newfs X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 16:52:04 -0000 On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 09:24:42AM -0500, matt wrote: > > This is probably a dumb question - I'l imagine I'm just missing something > obvious, but here goes... Is there any way to newfs a vnode backed md() > filesystem on a sparc64 system, transfer the relevant file that served as > the md() vnode backed filesystem to an i386 system, and mount the > filesystem? I've tried all sorts of various flags to newfs and mount > without any luck. What am I missing? I seem to recall that fs structs contain things in host byte-order, so can't be moved between big and little. There was some discussion of changing that for ufs2 but I think the conclusion was negative. -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net.