From: "Jon Burgess" <Jon_Burgess@eur.3com.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC] Little endian Cramfs on big endian machines?
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 18:51:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <80256CC0.0067A8CA.00@notesmta.eur.3com.com> (raw)
At the moment the cramfs code in 2.4 & 2.5 uses the native machine endianness
for the filesystem layout. I believe this behaviour has been considered a bug
and that the code changed such that the filsystem is always little endian.
There is some code in CVS at http://sourceforge.net/projects/cramfs which
implements this for 2.4. I tried it a couple of months ago and it seemed OK, but
it breaks backwards compatibility with old filesystems on big endian systems so
I suspect it would never be done in a stable kernel series like 2.4. Should
these changes be merged into 2.5?
Jon
next reply other threads:[~2003-02-01 18:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-01 18:51 Jon Burgess [this message]
2003-02-01 19:29 ` [RFC] Little endian Cramfs on big endian machines? John Bradford
2003-02-01 21:27 ` Jörn Engel
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