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From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: UFS floppy portability...
Date: 22 Dec 1993 14:46:50 +0100
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References: <2e17peINN2hh@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> <CGD.93Dec6230742@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:
>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...
Yup, just what it's worth to note: you *can* mount a ufs disk coming from a
SVR4/i386, though. fsck complains a bit since they're supposed to still use
the 4.2BSD version, but mounting goes well.
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