[Dump-users] Re: Dump deprecation FAQ

[Dragan K. <dk...@ly...>]

>> > Wrt to the filesystem data, ext2/ext3 metadata is in little 
>> > endian no matter what the host endianess is, so there is 
>> > nothing to be done.
>> 
>> Don't be so pessimistic. There's always a way out.
>
> I am not pessimistic. "nothing to be done" means 
> "no efforts are needed" here.

I misread you on this one.

Some other file systems, HP's HFS and Sun's UFS, are very
similar to ext2. They differ in name and magic mostly and 
in where the superblock starts. I compiled my hfsdump under 
Solaris and it worked with few changes, but of course it 
was unusable on HP side and vice versa, because one is
big-endian and the other is small-endian.

Thanks for the replies.

Cheers
Dragan