Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 02:09:24 -0500 From: James Tanis <jtanis@pycoder.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moving disks between archs Message-ID: <65dcde740602102309g27a2bbfdjd0aea4a4a6c3b77b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060211060012.GA79879@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <43EA72B9.5070307@gmail.com> <20060209203330.GA11506@xor.obsecurity.org> <65dcde740602100951k17bf8330o15e1b78bd2ee55be@mail.gmail.com> <20060210201417.GC67059@xor.obsecurity.org> <65dcde740602102152r2fa8b788r1d035222a66ec958@mail.gmail.com> <20060211060012.GA79879@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On 2/11/06, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > > > > > > > That would imply that endianness is a function of the OS/filesystem > > rather than the architecture, which is wrong. > > Maybe on solaris, but not on other OSes such as FreeBSD. There's probably some sort of extra abstraction layer then, wouldn't be too surprising as that would be a pretty BSD thing to do. In that case though one would think more, if not all, of the file systems in BSD would work similarly. In any case, their really isn't such a thing as endian-neutrality at the raw/physical layer obviously, I can only guess this is just achieved in BSD through using an API that was designed to recognize endianess and do the byte-swapping if necessary. -- James Tanis jtanis@pycoder.org http://pycoder.org
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