Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 13:13:04 -0400 From: Justin Hibbits <jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Byteswap and UFS Message-ID: <200805081313.12503.jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu> In-Reply-To: <4822767E.8000006@samsco.org> References: <200805072310.30158.jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu> <4822767E.8000006@samsco.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wednesday 07 May 2008 23:41:50 Scott Long wrote: > 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 It does look like an interesting task, so if nobody else wants to take it, I can take a shot at it. It'll be necessary when I decide to move my file server over to FreeBSD/ppc anyway. - Justin [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkgjNKgACgkQqt29EJDZlM7fRACfVTbhMJj2Arq4bHd/XLYmmG3k XZQAn3ESKe6zLECIWB4+VpsvFrexyUnM =UKyS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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