Subject: Re: mount_ext2fs
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
From: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/14/1998 21:51:16
At 23:04 Uhr +0200 13.07.1998, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>Another problem might be that Linux has, for some bizzar reason, decided
>that all on-disk file systems must be little-endian (they used to be host
>byte order, as is common in *BSD). The current ext2fs code assumes they are
>in host byte order, and so might be wrong for m68k linux.
If this were true, I'd say it is a bug and should be send-pr'ed.
The decision to make ext2fs little-endian only (which definitely sucks -
"all the world runs intel" and the small ones pay) quite predates the
NetBSD ext2fs.
hauke
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