Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:00:12 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: James Tanis <jtanis@pycoder.org> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: moving disks between archs Message-ID: <20060211060012.GA79879@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <65dcde740602102152r2fa8b788r1d035222a66ec958@mail.gmail.com> References: <43EA72B9.5070307@gmail.com> <20060209203330.GA11506@xor.obsecurity.org> <65dcde740602100951k17bf8330o15e1b78bd2ee55be@mail.gmail.com> <20060210201417.GC67059@xor.obsecurity.org> <65dcde740602102152r2fa8b788r1d035222a66ec958@mail.gmail.com>
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--qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 12:52:17AM -0500, James Tanis wrote: > On 2/10/06, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 12:51:18PM -0500, James Tanis wrote: > > > Tar will work, but not a drive formatted on an i386 with a tar file on > > > it. > > > > Not if you store the tar file in a UFS filesystem on the drive, but I > > suggested writing it to the raw disk where it is just a stream of bits > > and therefore endian-neutral. > > >=20 > That would imply that endianness is a function of the OS/filesystem > rather than the architecture, which is wrong. Maybe on solaris, but not on other OSes such as FreeBSD. Kris --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD7X1sWry0BWjoQKURAhIOAJ9S14NjMKYaZ/7Gz9PHTjv8Yk9w2QCgo8ES tA1HaxFoCU9brqYJI++oskA= =XTNX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk--
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