Alok Aggarwal wrote: > 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). >> This was considered for 2008.11 but then dropped because of size on the media. A compressed UFS file system is still about 10MB smaller than compressed DCFS file system. In general for the liveCD project this is not a big win at this point since kernel and drivers are not compressed. The eventual goal of course is to have uniformity across both platforms.
-Sanjay > 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 > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >
