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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: UFS floppy portability...
Date: 6 Dec 93 23:07:42
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: thorpej@mundania.CS.ORST.EDU's message of 7 Dec 93 06:27:58 GMT
In article <2e17peINN2hh@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> thorpej@mundania.CS.ORST.EDU (Jason R. Thorpe) writes:
>I assumed that since the SPARCStation, which is running SunOS 4.1.3, it would
>be able to mount the ufs on the floppy...It didn't happen...I didn't try it the
>other way, but it still should have worked...Has anyone else had this
>combatibility problem? Are there any quirks about the ufs filesystem that I
>should be aware of?
the ufs on-disk structures contain numbers which are (naturally)
stored in host byte order order...
since host byte order on the i386 is different than that on the sparc...
chris
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