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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news 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 Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <54deqo$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5415q6$fmm@nntp.interaccess.com> <542pgc$s42@polaris.eurocontrol.fr> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E 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 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)