Christopher A. Kantarjiev <cak@dimebank.com> wrote:

> I'm hoping to switch off my old SPARC hardware soon (anyone want a
> Sparcstation10?) and onto Intel hardware. I'm wondering if I can just
> unplug my chain of scsi disks from one machine and plug them into the
> new one and have the filesystems mount intact,

I don't think OpenBSD/i386 can read a Sun disklabel.
FFS on-disk structures are written in the host endian order, and
OpenBSD doesn't support accessing a differently endianed FFS.

> or if I will have to move the data across a network?

Yes.
And of course some of that data may be endian-sensitive, too.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de