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Subject: Re: Byteswap and UFS
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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