From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: jrs@us.ibm.com
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH][e2fsprogs] Move ext2fs_struct_generic_bitmap back into ext2fs.h
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 12:57:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1186937841369-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070809214254.GB5438@thunk.org>
>It turns out the need for this was only in the very first ports of
>Linux to the Powerpc, and there haven't been kernels that would mount
>big-endian superblocks since, oh, 1998 or so (in the 2.0 days).
>
>So probably the better fix is one where we don't allow big-endian
>filesystems any more. On all modern systems, we use little-endian
>encoding of the superblock, and the bitmaps don't need byte-swapping.
Here's the set of patches to remove the support for the powerpc
big-endian filesystem variant.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-12 16:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-07 21:16 [PATCH][e2fsprogs] Move ext2fs_struct_generic_bitmap back into ext2fs.h Jose R. Santos
2007-08-09 21:42 ` Theodore Tso
2007-08-12 16:57 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2007-08-12 16:57 ` [PATCH] Remove e2fsck's -s and -S options to byte-swap ancient PPC filesystems Theodore Ts'o
2007-08-12 16:57 ` [PATCH] Remove e2fsck's swapfs test, since we've removed the functionality Theodore Ts'o
2007-08-12 16:57 ` [PATCH] Remove PowerPC bitmap hackery since it's not been needed since Linux 2.1 Theodore Ts'o
2007-08-12 16:57 ` [PATCH] Clean up libext2fs by byte swapping iff WORDS_BIGENDIAN Theodore Ts'o
2007-08-12 16:57 ` [PATCH] Clean up applications to not use EXT2FS_ENABLE_SWAPFS or EXT2_FLAG_SWAP_BYTES Theodore Ts'o
2007-08-12 16:57 ` [PATCH] Remove configure --enable-swapfs and associated support #defines Theodore Ts'o
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