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On 3/20/15 10:39 AM, sson wrote:
> Brooks Davis-2 wrote
>> On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 02:11:02PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>>> is it possible without backup/restore?
>>>
>>> any tool?
>>>
>>> or do i miss something in fsck_ffs manual?
>> You would need to backup on the source endian and restore on the
>> destination.  Stacey Son (cc'd) has some patches to allow access to UFS
>> file systems of non-native endian that need someone to help polishing
>> them up.
>>
>> -- Brooks
>>
>>
>> attachment0 (188 bytes)
>> &lt;http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/attachment/5995345/0/attachment0&gt;
> (Sorry, I have been on vacation and then started having  #mbp2011
> <https://mbp2011.org>   issues with my laptop so I am just catching up.)
>
> I just rebased my patches to something a little closer to -current.  You can
> find my preliminary changes here:
>
> https://github.com/staceyson/freebsd/commit/642ad5aec8e9d130cdd347699da9718b23ff749a
>
> This provides enough support for the somewhat trivial case (e.g. ro, no soft
> updates, etc.).  This, indeed, needs more polishing.
>
> -stacey.
> \

rather cool.
does it all compile away to naught if not wanted?