On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 12:52:17AM -0500, James Tanis wrote: > On 2/10/06, Kris Kennaway <kris_(_at_)_obsecurity_(_dot_)_org> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 12:51:18PM -0500, James Tanis wrote: > > > Tar will work, but not a drive formatted on an i386 with a tar file on > > > it. > > > > Not if you store the tar file in a UFS filesystem on the drive, but I > > suggested writing it to the raw disk where it is just a stream of bits > > and therefore endian-neutral. > > > > That would imply that endianness is a function of the OS/filesystem > rather than the architecture, which is wrong. Maybe on solaris, but not on other OSes such as FreeBSD. Kris
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