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
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