Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jun 1999 09:59:16 +0200 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [PPC] ext2 filesytem corruption on linux 2.2.9 PowerPC |
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On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 11:51:37AM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > I think if there were a missing little-endian conversion anywhere, > > someone would have already found it by now since it is in use on > > Sparcs, UltraSparcs, MIPS, PPC and m68k based machines, all of which > > are big-endian. > > Not necessarily. Problems would show up only if you transferred data > between two different systems via carrying a harddisk.
you don't understand. ext2 filesystems are always little-endian these days precisely for this reason.
-- Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai> "Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson
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