From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 15:00:18 +0000
Subject: [Linux-ia64] Re: Reiserfs (was: Re: __ia64_syscall ?)
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Martin Wilck (Martin.Wilck@fujitsu-siemens.com) said: 
> This is the source of the endian-patch that makes ReiserFS work
> on IA64 (although originally developed for PPC).
> 
> http://penguinppc.org/~jeffm/

Why does an *endian* patch make reiserfs work on ia64, when
ia64 is little endian like x86?

Bill, genuinely curious...