Subject: Re: NeXT file systems
To: Danny Thomas <D.Thomas@vthrc.uq.edu.au>
From: proprietor - Foo Bar And Grill <jgraham@defender.VAS.viewlogic.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/01/1996 15:04:04
#define AUTHOR "D.Thomas@vthrc.uq.edu.au (Danny Thomas)"

/*
 * not having any concept of unix internals, would that be a difficult thing
 * to add? Presumably you could use a bit next to the clean flag to indicate a
 * canonical byte-order FFS.
 *

Define "canonical byte-order".  We can't very well go around doing
that on all platforms.

Reversed words/longwords are easy enough to detect; perhaps the FFS
handler should have a swab() or swaw() or whatever converter if it
discovers a reversed super-block magic number (and the other info
checks out, of course).  Print a warning, perhaps?

Warning: mounting different-endian filesystem.

 * cheers,
 * Danny Thomas  (D.Thomas@vthrc.uq.edu.au)
 * 
 * 
 * 
 */

#undef AUTHOR	/* "D.Thomas@vthrc.uq.edu.au (Danny Thomas)" */




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