>On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 13:16, Joerg Schilling wrote: >> "James C. McPherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > The design of ZFS is endian-neutral. Ufs is very much endian-dependent >> > and as I understand it the work involved to remedy that is more than >> > non-trivial. >> >> The effort to make ufs endien tolerant would take about 2 weeks from >> my expectations. > >So we will a sponsor request from you in 2 weeks time then ? > >Many many people who are intimately involved with the ufs code base have >looked at this in recent years and from every one of them I've spoken >with the estimate is more in terms of months than a couple of weeks. >It apparently isn't as trivial as you think it is.
And the fragility of the UFS code is such that we do not really like to touch it all that much :-( (In BSD land, even McKusick apparently needs a reviewer for his ufs changes because there too it is considered fragile) Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
