Hello Jeff,

Saturday, January 27, 2007, 8:27:09 AM, you wrote:


JB> You're all correct.  File data is never byte-swapped.  Most metadata
JB> needs to be byte-swapped, but it's generally only 1-2% of your space.
JB> So the overhead shouldn't be significant, even if you never rewrite.

I remember some time ago Sun touted ZFS has some interesting new
technology to deal with endianess and that patent is pending for it.
Can you share what was it about?

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