On Mon, 10 Apr 1995 20:27:35 -0400 
 Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@LAGAVULIN.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU> wrote:

 > some would say that you shouldn't slow down the 'default' FFS at all
 > to do this.  i.e. clone the current ffs into a different mount-type,
 > e.g. "bufs" (for backwards ufs...  8-), and do it there.

`sfu' :-)

 > While compatibility is nice, it's not clear that you want to slow down
 > your 'default case' significantly to get it.

Yeah...checking a flag before every operation would be yucky.  Perhaps, 
however, you could mount it as `ufs' and if it detects the need to 
byte-swap, it `automagically' changes the mount to the other type...for 
transparency's sake...(shows up in mount list as other type...)

I dunno -- just throwing around ideas...

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