From: Stelian P. <st...@po...> - 2003-11-30 21:27:36
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On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 04:13:28PM +0100, Dragan Krnic wrote: > >> > 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. Yeah, this must be because all those filesystems must be derived from the original UNIX one. However, I'd say there is a big possibility that those filesystem have evolved in separate directions, implementing uncompatible extensions... > 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. Yup, this is because HP and Sun make both the hardware and the software. I imagine it has been funny when they ported Solaris to Intel hardware. :) Stelian. -- Stelian Pop <st...@po...> |