Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
Dan McDonald
@JeffSipek @opensolaris That was one thing ZFS got right. Writing to disk is like writing to the network. http://kebesays.blogspot.com/2009/06/endian-independence-not-just-for-kernel.html …
illumos/solaris UFS don't use a fixed byte order. SPARC produces structs in BE, x86 writes them out in LE. I was happier before I knew this.
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@kebesays@JeffSipek@opensolaris I think for a long time people just didn't expect the same disks to be read on different architectures. -
@thatcks@kebesays@opensolaris Very likely. It's just depressing to see it in 2016. This is certainly something that Linux got right. -
@JeffSipek@kebesays@opensolaris It's a hard problem for UFS, since the architecture-dependent format dates back 25+ years. - View other replies
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@thatcks@kebesays@opensolaris Agreed. Linux UFS code goes through many contortions to handle both LE & BE and then maintains the endian.
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Chris Siebenmann
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