From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 15:29:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ppc@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EDCA16A40F for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:29:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from raj@semihalf.com) Received: from mail.semihalf.com (mail.semihalf.com [62.233.211.107]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACBCB43CB0 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:29:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from raj@semihalf.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.semihalf.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC3941436B; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:29:32 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.semihalf.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.semihalf.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 32641-01; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:29:31 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <458956DB.7040009@semihalf.com> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:29:31 +0100 From: Rafal Jaworowski MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Grehan References: <38D687BE-F674-4954-B6D3-8D25A8E9B9B5@mac.com> <4588846D.3040709@semihalf.com> <45888E72.6050406@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <45888E72.6050406@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at semihalf.com Cc: ppc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HFS+ X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:29:39 -0000 Hi Peter, >> 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've had a look at relevant NetBSD (3.0) changes before but they seemed rather intrusive, but am not that intimate with our UFS code, so it might be not that big in FreeBSD case. > I believe the sysutils/makefs port can handle cross-endian builds. > Thanks for this pointer! It's very much what I was looking for. It's still not possible to mount such image on LE host, but it's much better than using a Sparc host only to create and populate a PowerPC MFS image:) > If you can get away with a read-only root, mkisofs can do the job and > FreeBSD can deal with an isofs root mount. > Yes, I know, iso rootfs has been working nicely for us, but as you say it's read only which stands a limitation beyond some basic service. Rafal