Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 21:41:50 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Justin Hibbits <jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Byteswap and UFS Message-ID: <4822767E.8000006@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <200805072310.30158.jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu> References: <200805072310.30158.jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu>
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Justin Hibbits wrote: > Are there any plans to add byteswapping into the UFS code, ala NetBSD? This > would be really useful for moving disks between architectures. I noticed pjd > was doing some work with this, but last thing I can find on it is a blog > entry from over a year ago. > > - Justin While a direct port from NetBSD is probably infeasible due to codebase differences, taking the work there as a guideline for doing it in FreeBSD would be incredibly useful. Is it something that you're interested in working on? Scott
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