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Date:      Thu, 5 Mar 1998 19:01:18 +0100
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
Cc:        fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr: bi-endian ffs available]
Message-ID:  <19980305190118.29623@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <199803051758.KAA19486@mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Thu, Mar 05, 1998 at 10:58:40AM -0700
References:  <19980305180512.15607@follo.net> <199803051758.KAA19486@mt.sri.com>

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On Thu, Mar 05, 1998 at 10:58:40AM -0700, Nate Williams wrote:
> > Should we adopt this?
> 
> > From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
> ...
> > I've made big progress in getting ffs read both big and little endian
> > file systems. A preliminary (but working :) version is available
> > at ftp.netbsd.org:/pub/incoming/bouyer/ffs_endian.diff.gz.
> 
> Not if performance matters to you, which it does to me.

I seem to remember about .5 percent performance loss being mentioned in
later messages.  Not too terrible - it would at least be worthwhile to make
it a kernel option.

Eivind.

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