Re: Swapped endian filesystem issues

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Hello,

On Sat, 26 Dec 2020 20:47:55 +0000 (UTC)
John Klos <john%ziaspace.com@localhost> wrote:

> What do other people usually do about issues like this?
> 
> truck# fsck_ffs -y /dev/rsd1a
> ** /dev/rsd1a
> ** Swapped byte order
> 
> CANNOT READ: BLK 59336270274363392
> CONTINUE? yes
> 
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 
> I made a big endian filesystem on an aarch64eb Rasperry Pi, started using 
> it heavily, then got a panic. Tried the fsck on a little endian Pi.

BE ffs on BE host should Just Work(tm)
That said, I have a LE ffs on a macppc box with FFS_EI which also Just Works(tm).
Don't think I had to explicitly fsck that one though.

have fun
Michael