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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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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

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