From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g3PGrNwJ017300 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 09:53:23 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g3PGrMtM017299 for linux-mips-outgoing; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 09:53:22 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from mcp.csh.rit.edu (mcp.csh.rit.edu [129.21.60.9]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g3PGr4wJ017288; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 09:53:04 -0700 Received: from csh.rit.edu (anna.csh.rit.edu [129.21.61.85]) by mcp.csh.rit.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1768AE5; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 12:18:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3CC82C2F.7010104@csh.rit.edu> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 12:17:51 -0400 From: George Gensure User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020313 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Ralf Baechle , Pete Popov , linux-mips Subject: Re: reiserfs References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Ralf Baechle wrote: > >>On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 04:13:06PM -0700, Pete Popov wrote: >> >>>Has anyone been able to run reiserfs on big endian systems? >>> >>I've seen reports of people running Reiserfs on MIPS but I don't know what >>endianess. >> > >Some people run it on PowerPC, which is big endian as far as Linux is >concerned. > >Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert > >-- >Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org > >In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But >when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. > -- Linus Torvalds > Jeff Mahoney, probably the lead big-endian reiserfs developer, has run reiserfs on (that I've seen with my own eyes) Sun and Apple (G3 or later). There is no reason his code would not similarly work on big-endian mips machines. -George