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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:52:09 +0100
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> adaptive endian-ness is pretty easy; I nearly put it into
> Ken's file server a few weeks ago
[...]
> When mounting the file
> system, if that long looks like 0x04030201 instead, you push
> the existing "x" byte-swapping pseudo file-system that knows the format
> of all meta-data and byte-swaps blocks as they are read and written.

i'm not sure that this is the kind of thing that sun is doing.  in
that press release they insist that "neither architecture pays a
byte-swapping tax" (which is what you're paying by using an extra
level of indirection).

ahh, i suppose they probably mean "neither architecture pays a
byte-swapping tax *on a filesystem created by that architecture*", in
which case you're doing something equivalent.

could they really patent such a trivial thing?