Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 09:39:25 +0100 From: "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org> To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Justin Hibbits <jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu> Subject: Re: Byteswap and UFS Message-ID: <48240DBD.9050202@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20080508122907.GA1941@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <200805072310.30158.jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu> <20080508122907.GA1941@garage.freebsd.pl>
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Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > I did the read-only part, ie. you can mount UFS file system read-only > created on system with different byte order than yours. Read-write > support is much harder. Also the NetBSD's way of doing it is very > intrusive to the UFS source - number of changes is a scary. I was trying > to do it a bit differently (on lower level), which went nice for > read-only, but may be harder for read-write. The code was never > committed. > Surely Kirk is willing to review something on this scale, and give his buy-in? The lack of this functionality is going to impede progress on supporting embedded systems. cheers BMS
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