Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jim Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The only two Solaris file systems that are endian-neutral are ISO
> > 9660 (High Sierra), which is read-only, and of course ZFS.
>
> Personally I wouldn't say that ZFS isn endian-neutral but endian aware
> (or adaptive). Writes are done in the local endianness but the on disk
> format and code is ware of this when reading and does the appropriate
> swaps. So a pool written in big endian then take to a little endian
> machine and written more will gradually migrate to little endian over time.
The same applies to PCFS and UDF.
It would be possible to do the same with UFS.
Jörg
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