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Date:      Wed, 07 May 2008 21:41:50 -0600
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        Justin Hibbits <jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Byteswap and UFS
Message-ID:  <4822767E.8000006@samsco.org>
In-Reply-To: <200805072310.30158.jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu>
References:  <200805072310.30158.jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu>

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Justin Hibbits wrote:
> Are there any plans to add byteswapping into the UFS code, ala NetBSD?  This 
> would be really useful for moving disks between architectures.  I noticed pjd 
> was doing some work with this, but last thing I can find on it is a blog 
> entry from over a year ago.
> 
> - Justin

While a direct port from NetBSD is probably infeasible due to codebase 
differences, taking the work there as a guideline for doing it in 
FreeBSD would be incredibly useful.  Is it something that you're
interested in working on?

Scott




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