ufs/ffs: detect endian mismatch between machine and filesystem
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Authored by alfredo on Dec 17 2022, 3:00 AM.

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Summary

Mount on a LE machine a filesystem formatted for BE is not supported
currently. This adds a check for the superblock magic number using
swapped bytes to guess and warn the user that it may be a valid
superblock but endian is incompatible.

MFC after: 2 weeks

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rG FreeBSD src repository

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Buildable 48737
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alfredo created this revision.Dec 17 2022, 3:00 AM

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Harbormaster completed remote builds in B48737: Diff 114214.Dec 17 2022, 3:00 AM

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sys/

kern/

vfs_mountroot.c

2 lines

ufs/

ffs/

ffs_subr.c

27 lines

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sys/kern/vfs_mountroot.c