Messages in this thread | | | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Little endian Cramfs on big endian machines? | Date | Sat, 1 Feb 2003 19:29:22 +0000 (GMT) |
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> At the moment the cramfs code in 2.4 & 2.5 uses the native machine > endianness for the filesystem layout. I believe this behaviour has > been considered a bug and that the code changed such that the > filsystem is always little endian.
Maybe the native machine endianness is used for performace reasons - that would make sense given the typical uses of cramfs. Also, it is a read-only filesystem, so a userland application could flip the endianness if a filesystem needs to be used on a non-native endianness machine.
I'm not necessarily saying that that it's not a bug, just suggesting an explaination.
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