Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 12:52:02 -0400 From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> To: matt <matt@grogged.dyndns.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sparc64 newfs vs. i386 newfs Message-ID: <20030517165202.GA33037@pit.databus.com> In-Reply-To: <20030517090901.X70438-100000@grogged.dyndns.org> References: <3EC572EE.2050501@btc.adaptec.com> <20030517090901.X70438-100000@grogged.dyndns.org>
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On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 09:24:42AM -0500, matt wrote: > > This is probably a dumb question - I'l imagine I'm just missing something > obvious, but here goes... Is there any way to newfs a vnode backed md() > filesystem on a sparc64 system, transfer the relevant file that served as > the md() vnode backed filesystem to an i386 system, and mount the > filesystem? I've tried all sorts of various flags to newfs and mount > without any luck. What am I missing? I seem to recall that fs structs contain things in host byte-order, so can't be moved between big and little. There was some discussion of changing that for ufs2 but I think the conclusion was negative. -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net.
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