Hi Jan, On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, jan damborsky wrote:
>> DC: Testing should be platform neutral. > > I am thinking if there might be some issues with respect > to endianness during process of building microroot. > > For instance, currently x86 microroot can't be mounted > on Sparc machine, as UFS layout is platform dependent > because of endianness. I am not sure if similar might > apply to DCFS which will be used for Sparc. > > Speaking about process of building microroot, in order to unify > it I think we could consider if we might switch to DCFS for x86 > microroot as well (in Distro Constructor). DCFS is a layered file system and currently works only with UFS as the underlying file system. And, since UFS isn't endianness agnostic (like, say, ZFS is), it can't be moved across platforms. Alok
