SunOS 4.x boot disk layout

der Mouse mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA
Sun Mar 27 17:14:41 CST 2005


> I assume that the spec for FFS must dictate byte-order in most places
> where it's necessary...

I don't think it does.  I think all, and certainly within epsilon of
all, multi-byte quantities are stored in host-native byte order.
(Assuming, of course, that you haven't mounted it with opposite
endianness, on systems that can.  And, of course, it's possible that
someone has built an implementation that *always* swaps, eg as I
spectulated Sun may have done for the 386i.)

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