From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 8 17:29:18 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35230106567B for ; Thu, 8 May 2008 17:29:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu) Received: from QMTA05.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta05.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.48]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D26D88FC16 for ; Thu, 8 May 2008 17:29:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu) Received: from OMTA09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.20]) by QMTA05.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id P2Dt1Z02T0SCNGk5506W00; Thu, 08 May 2008 17:12:43 +0000 Received: from earth.knownspace ([69.255.34.108]) by OMTA09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id P5DF1Z0072KzDb13V00000; Thu, 08 May 2008 17:13:15 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=p0I3KbBSVIkuc2248xMA:9 a=yr1PPWfdsPm0W-M0STCsnQyEg7wA:4 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 a=ebFChtJP-pmcwhhymuwA:9 a=hbYGLEJsXao3_TGyQNL7AIv19csA:4 a=rPt6xJ-oxjAA:10 From: Justin Hibbits To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 13:13:04 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200805072310.30158.jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu> <4822767E.8000006@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <4822767E.8000006@samsco.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart9178187.uQl61WxT0J"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200805081313.12503.jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu> Subject: Re: Byteswap and UFS X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 17:29:18 -0000 --nextPart9178187.uQl61WxT0J Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 07 May 2008 23:41:50 Scott Long wrote: > Justin Hibbits wrote: > > Are there any plans to add byteswapping into the UFS code, ala NetBSD?= =20 > > 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 It does look like an interesting task, so if nobody else wants to take it, = I=20 can take a shot at it. It'll be necessary when I decide to move my file=20 server over to FreeBSD/ppc anyway. =2D Justin --nextPart9178187.uQl61WxT0J Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkgjNKgACgkQqt29EJDZlM7fRACfVTbhMJj2Arq4bHd/XLYmmG3k XZQAn3ESKe6zLECIWB4+VpsvFrexyUnM =UKyS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart9178187.uQl61WxT0J--