Re: kern/50162: Lurking byteswap problem in FFS_EI ?

[Jeff Rizzo <riz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/50162; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jeff Rizzo <riz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/50162: Lurking byteswap problem in FFS_EI ?
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 22:49:20 -0700

 On 8/22/15 8:55 PM, David Holland wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR kern/50162; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >
 > From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
 >
 >   
 >   Something I should have thought of earlier: any indication if the
 >   on-disk size is also flipped?
 
 When I was dumping the file system so I could re-newfs it little-endian, 
 it filled up a 20G partition for what was supposed to be 1.7G of data.  
 I'm not certain that indicates problems with the files on disk, but it's 
 certainly possible.
 >   
 >   Given that we couldn't find a nonswapping path in the load code, I
 >   wonder if it's being written out wrong.
 >   
 >