From owner-freebsd-fs Thu Mar 5 10:01:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA18852 for freebsd-fs-outgoing; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 10:01:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA18846 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 10:01:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA21368; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 18:01:19 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id TAA02508; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 19:01:19 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19980305190118.29623@follo.net> Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 19:01:18 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: Nate Williams , Eivind Eklund Cc: fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr: bi-endian ffs available] References: <19980305180512.15607@follo.net> <199803051758.KAA19486@mt.sri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <199803051758.KAA19486@mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Thu, Mar 05, 1998 at 10:58:40AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Mar 05, 1998 at 10:58:40AM -0700, Nate Williams wrote: > > Should we adopt this? > > > From: Manuel Bouyer > ... > > 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