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Hi Rafal,

> On a somewhat fs-related note: is anyone aware of efforts towards 
> support for cross-endian UFS? It would be nice to create and populate an 
> MFS image on LE host. I looked at this briefly, but it didn't seem like 
> the quickest task and maybe someone is already working on it.

  This has come up a few times with various folk (Kip Macy ?) saying 
that it didn't take long to pull across the NetBSD changes that do this.

  I believe the sysutils/makefs port can handle cross-endian builds.

  If you can get away with a read-only root, mkisofs can do the job and 
FreeBSD can deal with an isofs root mount.

later,

Peter.