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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!festival!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: accessing big-endian BSD4.2 filesystems under FreeBSD Message-ID: <CsInHu.16z@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <CsGoKB.sFI@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> <2vcu39$t3@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 1994 11:20:18 GMT Lines: 14 In article <2vcu39$t3@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >>FreeBSD doesn't do byteorder conversion on filesystem accesses. >Nope, the BSD FFS doesn't do byte-order switching automatically. Can >you imagine the overhead of that for EVERY single block. Wow! Not for *every* block; just filesystem structures (directories, inodes, superblocks). The overhead wouldn't be that great (the ISOFS code already does it). It would of course make the code somewhat messier, but it would be *very* useful. -- Richard -- Richard Tobin, HCRC, Edinburgh University R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk