Hi Alok,

Alok Aggarwal wrote:
> Hi Jan,
>
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, jan damborsky wrote:
>
>>> DC: Testing should be platform neutral.
>>
>> I am thinking if there might be some issues with respect
>> to endianness during process of building microroot.
>>
>> For instance, currently x86 microroot can't be mounted
>> on Sparc machine, as UFS layout is platform dependent
>> because of endianness. I am not sure if similar might
>> apply to DCFS which will be used for Sparc.
>>
>> Speaking about process of building microroot, in order to unify
>> it I think we could consider if we might switch to DCFS for x86
>> microroot as well (in Distro Constructor).
>
> DCFS is a layered file system and currently works
> only with UFS as the underlying file system.

I see - I didn't know this. Thanks for clarifying this !

Jan

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