[ cc'd to current-users, since that's the right place for discussion
  of changes in -current. ]

> Why only on the Amiga? At a minimum it should be built on all m68k
> machines, to maintain a common userland.  Plus, if it handles endianness
> corretcly, it is potentially useful on all ports.  While other systems
> can't use it on Amiga floppies (due to sector format) or Amiga hard
> drives (different partitioning system), it COULD be used on
> non-partitioned removable media like zip and jaz disks.

It could also probably be used on floppy images (via vnd).


cgd