From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 13:47:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 13:47:21 -0400 Received: from ravage.rit.edu ([129.21.2.220]:19584 "HELO ravage.unixthugs.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 13:47:10 -0400 Message-ID: <3AE85F24.1010208@suse.com> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 13:47:16 -0400 From: Jeff Mahoney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i686; en-US; 0.8.1) Gecko/20010326 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Reiserfs List Subject: [PATCH/URL] Endian Safe ReiserFS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I've just completed my port of ReiserFS to be endian safe. The patch has been tested successfully on x86 (UP/SMP), ppc (UP/SMP), and UltraSparc (UP). I've received reports that it also works successfully on mips (UP). The patch preserves the little-endian disk format, so a disk can be moved across architectures. The on-disk format has not been altered, so the code can be patched in without disruption to users with existing reiserfs filesystems (like myself :)). There are no VFS changes. Due to the patches affecting all of ReiserFS, the patch is quite large (180K), and so in the interests of preserving bandwidth for everyone, I've decided to post a URL to the patch instead. The patch can be found at: http://penguinppc.org/~jeffm/releases/endian-safe-reiserfs-for-2.4.4-pre7.final.bz2 More information, including the endian safe utiltities, can be found at http://penguinppc.org/~jeffm. -Jeff