Kyle,

> Artem Kachitchkine wrote:
>>
>>>>> I just thought there might be a compatibility mode where the  
>>>>> driver
>>>>> or fs did the endian translation.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the info... I'm off to track down a SPARC machine.
>>
>> As another option, I think Linux UFS implementation has endian
>> translation, 'ufstype' mount option.
>>
>
> Really, Will it be ok with no FDisk partition? and will it be able to
> use the SPARC vtoc to find the UFS partition?

This is more then an FDisk, VTOC issue, in that if one found the UFS  
partition, it too will be unreadable. If one could read the UFS  
partition, then the UFS volume header, all inodes, all directories  
and the contents of some, but not all files would be unreadable.

The only two Solaris file systems that are endian-neutral are ISO  
9660 (High Sierra), which is read-only, and of course ZFS.

>
>   -Kyle
>
>> -Artem
>
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