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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Sun 4.1.1 filesystem on FreeBSD 2.1
Date: 20 Oct 1996 15:00:40 GMT
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Ollivier.Robert@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert) wrote:

> Sun 3 == Big endian machines
> PC    == Little endian machines.
> 
> UFS is not byte order independant. NetBSD/sun3 is probably able to read it.

You might perhaps have luck in trying to dump them under SunOS to a
tape, and read the dump tapes on FreeBSD.  I've once noticed that
restore(8) tries to detect and correct byte order problems.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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