Re: [PATCH] 2.5.8 IDE 36

Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-04-17T08:32:32Z

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:09:38 -0700 (PDT)
>
> I could be wrong, it's a 2.1.x kernel that they started with. I thought
> that was around the time the fix went in.
>
> Again, I did the fix 6 years ago, thats pre-2.0.x days
>
> EXT2 has been little-endian only with proper byte-swapping support
> across all architectures, since that time.

On SPARC. M68k followed a bit later. But when I got my CHRP board, ext2 was
still big endian on (at least some) PPC boxes, so PPC must have been switched
over in 1997/1998.

I tried to find the exact date of the appearance of the `-s' option of e2fsck
in the changelog og e2fsprogs, but apparently not all changes are mentioned
there.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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