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 14:03:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:03:44 -0400 Received: from idiom.com ([216.240.32.1]:25605 "EHLO idiom.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:03:33 -0400 Message-ID: <3AE87D74.5D75BB8@namesys.com> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:56:36 -0700 From: Hans Reiser X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-14cl i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Mahoney CC: Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Reiserfs List Subject: Re: [reiserfs-list] [PATCH/URL] Endian Safe ReiserFS In-Reply-To: <3AE85F24.1010208@suse.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jeff Mahoney wrote: > 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 You might consider sending the patch to the maintainer of ReiserFS. Hans