On Thursday 19 October 2006 02:46 am, Darren J Moffat wrote:
> ZFS only does byte swapping for ZFS metadata not application data.  You
> really don't want the filesystem doing application data byte swapping on
> the fly - since you don't know which apps are written for a given
> endianness and which are byte swap aware.

So, why would you use hardware instructions opposed to the network functions 
to convert application data other than speed? Wouldn't the network functions 
be preferred for applications?

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Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems
Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group


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