Solene Rapenne <[email protected]> wrote: > This diff had a section about endianess of newfs. > This is not written anywhere that ffs is dependent of endianess. > > Related bug report > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=150242795204995&w=2 > > > Index: newfs.8 > =================================================================== > RCS file: /data/cvs/src/sbin/newfs/newfs.8,v > retrieving revision 1.75 > diff -u -p -r1.75 newfs.8 > --- newfs.8 23 Apr 2019 18:13:11 -0000 1.75 > +++ newfs.8 19 Aug 2019 15:49:15 -0000 > @@ -345,3 +345,8 @@ The > .Nm > command appeared in > .Bx 4.2 . > +.Sh CAVEATS > +The created filesystem can only be mounted on systems running architectures > +of the same endianess as the one on which > +.Nm > +has been used.
Or, you could explain this more as an attribute of the filesystem: FFS filesystems are byte-order dependent, and thus not portable to systems with a different endianness. (two n in endianness)
