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From: "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org>
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Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Justin Hibbits <jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu>
Subject: Re: Byteswap and UFS
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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