From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 8 02:50:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1477F16A41F for ; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 02:50:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from hummer.onthenet.com.au (hummer.onthenet.com.au [203.13.68.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98BD943D45 for ; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 02:50:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from [203.144.2.190] (CPE-2-190.dsl.OntheNet.net [203.144.2.190]) by hummer.onthenet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58A4919FEDF; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 12:50:30 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <43C07DF5.1060603@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 12:50:29 +1000 From: Peter Grehan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041016 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LT Cornell References: <20060107231105.23017.qmail@web34702.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060107231105.23017.qmail@web34702.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem sharing UFS2 between PPC and i386 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: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 02:50:32 -0000 (cc'd to -ppc, i think that was your intent :) > Don't post much but I do read up regularly, about the > filesystem issue is there another filesystem that > freebsd can install to such as reiser fs, and if not > is there any talk of possibly supporting this? I just had a quick glance at reiser and xfs and they look to do the right thing with byte order - ext2 doesn't. However, I think the former are read-only at this stage. later, Peter. From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 9 07:41:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDD1216A420; Mon, 9 Jan 2006 07:41:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from christopher.illies@ki.se) Received: from humle.it.ki.se (humle.it.ki.se [130.237.101.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44E6343D8C; Mon, 9 Jan 2006 07:40:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from christopher.illies@ki.se) Received: from Klabautermann.ks.se ([136.155.22.153]) by humle.it.ki.se (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k097eeZY029606; Mon, 9 Jan 2006 08:40:40 +0100 (MET) Received: by Klabautermann.ks.se (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 801F8C597; Mon, 9 Jan 2006 08:43:10 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 08:43:10 +0100 From: Christopher Illies To: Peter Grehan Message-ID: <20060109074310.GA31778@Klabautermann.ks.se> Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Illies , Peter Grehan , LT Cornell , freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org References: <20060107231105.23017.qmail@web34702.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <43C07DF5.1060603@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43C07DF5.1060603@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem sharing UFS2 between PPC and i386 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: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 07:41:07 -0000 On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 12:50:29PM +1000, Peter Grehan wrote: > (cc'd to -ppc, i think that was your intent :) Yes, is was my mistake. It happened while using a web interface instead of mutt. > >Don't post much but I do read up regularly, about the > >filesystem issue is there another filesystem that > >freebsd can install to such as reiser fs, and if not > >is there any talk of possibly supporting this? > > I just had a quick glance at reiser and xfs and they look to do the > right thing with byte order - ext2 doesn't. However, I think the former > are read-only at this stage. There is also an old port of HFS+, which is always big endian. Unfortunately is doesn't compile on a recent 6.0/7.0 system :-(, but that would we very helpful to have. Let me look into this a bit further. Christopher