Solene Rapenne <[email protected]> wrote:

> This diff had a section about endianess of newfs.
> This is not written anywhere that ffs is dependent of endianess.
> 
> Related bug report
> https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=150242795204995&w=2
> 
> 
> Index: newfs.8
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /data/cvs/src/sbin/newfs/newfs.8,v
> retrieving revision 1.75
> diff -u -p -r1.75 newfs.8
> --- newfs.8   23 Apr 2019 18:13:11 -0000      1.75
> +++ newfs.8   19 Aug 2019 15:49:15 -0000
> @@ -345,3 +345,8 @@ The
>  .Nm
>  command appeared in
>  .Bx 4.2 .
> +.Sh CAVEATS
> +The created filesystem can only be mounted on systems running architectures
> +of the same endianess as the one on which
> +.Nm
> +has been used.

Or, you could explain this more as an attribute of the filesystem:

FFS filesystems are byte-order dependent, and thus not portable to
systems with a different endianness.

(two n in endianness)


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