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Subject: Re: cross-arch filesystem mounts in current?
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In message: <20040204184923.GA26210@xor.obsecurity.org>
            Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes:
: On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 01:46:46PM -0500, Aditya wrote:
: > I have an IDE drive with a FreeBSD 4.x filesystem created on a i386 machine
: > that I'm trying to mount on a sparc64 machine (Netra X1) running -CURRENT and
: > it's unclear how to do it -- any hints?
: 
: I don't think this is possible on FreeBSD, because of the different
: endianness of the filesystems.

Correct.  The endian agnostic changes that NetBSD has done to ufs
haven't been brought into FreeBSD.  Further, the disk labels for
different endian machines seem to have different orders so you get the
sort of thing that Aditya is seeing with disklabel too.

Warner