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Date:      Thu, 1 Jan 1998 10:54:45 +0100 (MET)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        bsdean@gte.net
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mounting a FreeBSD partition on NetBSD or SunOS
Message-ID:  <199801010954.KAA10709@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <199801010219.VAA04068@corona.unx.sas.com> from "Brian Dean" at Dec 31, 97 09:19:44 pm

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As Brian Dean wrote...
> 
> I have a few questions about filesystems created by one Unix variant
> and being mounting by another.
> 
[del]

> Thirdly, even if one could do one of the above, would the file system
> be mountable?  Is the byte-ordering between processor architectures
> (big/little endian) an issue here, or are the file system structures
> as they reside on the disk, portable across architectures?

UFS is not portable between different architectures to the best of my knowledge.
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