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>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19980305190118.29623>