From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Jan 2 11:27: 9 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 605C737B487 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 11:27:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from k6.locore.ca (k6.locore.ca [198.96.117.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5E6643EC5 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 11:27:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jake@k6.locore.ca) Received: from k6.locore.ca (jake@localhost.locore.ca [127.0.0.1]) by k6.locore.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h02JjRuP076533; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 14:45:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jake@k6.locore.ca) Received: (from jake@localhost) by k6.locore.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h02JjRlZ076532; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 14:45:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 14:45:27 -0500 From: Jake Burkholder To: Chris BeHanna Cc: sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: filesystem endian converter? Message-ID: <20030102144527.X43538@locore.ca> References: <200301021149.52369.chris@pennasoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200301021149.52369.chris@pennasoft.com>; from chris@pennasoft.com on Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 11:49:52AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Apparently, On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 11:49:52AM -0500, Chris BeHanna said words to the effect of; > Are there any tools to convert a filesystem created on a > little-endian machine for use on a big-endian machine, or vice-versa? Ian Dowse (iedowse@freebsd.org) wrote a program to do this on a file backed memory file system. I don't know how well it would work on a large filesystem or in place on disk though. > > Can FreeBSD/sparc64 mount Solaris 8 UFS partitions, even if only > in read-only mode? This should work, at least it used to, but you have to be really careful about fscking solaris filesystem with freebsd fsck and vice versa. Read only is the only thing that's really safe. > > (For that matter, anyone know if FreeBSD/x86 can mount Solaris 8 > x86 UFS partitions, even if only in read-only mode? I'm trying to > help out a co-worker whose Solaris 8 x86 box crashed. His new machine > is going to be FreeBSD 4.7, but he has two disks full of data to > recover.) Don't know. Since freebsd/sparc64 can (or could) read big endian solaris filesystems, I don't see why not. Jake To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message