[Dump-users] Re: Dump deprecation FAQ

[Stelian P. <st...@po...>]

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.
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