On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 07:28:20PM -0700, Philip Brown wrote:
> Eric Schrock wrote:
> >If you're using EFI labels, yes (VTOC labels are not endian neutral).
> >ZFS will automatically convert endianness from the on-disk format, and
> >new data will be written using the native endianness, so data will be
> >gradually be rewritten to avoid the byteswap overhead.
> >
> 
> now, when you say "data", you just mean "metadata", right?

Of course - thanks for pointing that out.  Though it would be an
exciting feature of PsychicFS to automatically translate your
application data ;-)

- Eric

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Eric Schrock, Solaris Kernel Development       http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock
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