Bill Sommerfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 11:12, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Making UFS dual endian would not be really hard.
>
> and it's been done to a cousin of the Solaris UFS code (take a look at
> NetBSD; look through their ufs/ffs and fsck code for "FFS_EI" ifdefs).
>
> To port that over to solaris, additional work would be required on the
> logging code, of course.
>
> > I would guess this is 1-2 weeks of work + testing.
>
> Based on the fragility I've seen in the UFS/FFS code over the years on
> multiple OS's, I'd pessimistically say 1-2 weeks of coding + 5 years of
> testing .... (ok, it's probably not that bad, but...).
This is how it usually works...
A few weeks ago, I did have a discussion with Frank Hofmann about hsfs
enhancements and I told him that I would be able to add Joliet support
within 1-2 days. He did guess it will take him 1-2 weeks, but we did
both agree that _testing_ (done by an independent party) would take 1-2 weeks.
Jörg
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