Re: [PATCH 0/2] cramfs: Add mount option "swapendian"

[Andi Drebes <lists-receive@programmierforen.de>]

Am Donnerstag, 15. November 2007 23:48 schrieb Phillip Lougher:
> > So a "v2" cramfs would be a great idea.
> 
> That is what I always considered Squashfs to be.  But I also made the 
> mistake of making Squashfs both little and big endian.  That's going to
> be fixed and then I'll make a second attempt at submitting it for
> inclusion in the mainline kernel.
I didn't have a closer look on squashfs, but I am going to have it this weekend.
So far, it seems as if no "cramfs v2" is needed. My proposal is the following:

I'll write a new patch for inclusion in the mainline kernel that makes cramfs
"little endian only". For people who really want to be able to mount filesystems
with both kinds of endianness there will be a seperate patch (not intended to be
merged into mainline) available somewhere on the net (my website or so). It will
definitely be marked as non-official in order to prevent people from creating
images in big endian. Officially, cramfs should only support little endian images.
If squashfs will be merged, cramfs should be marked as obsolete.

	Andi