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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fix type mismatch in jffs.
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 11:54:13AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
> >
> > JFFS is host-endian. If you want to make it swing both ways - feel free,
>
> Please don't.
>
> Dual-endianness is _evil_.
>
> Admittedly host-endian is stupid too, but it's less stupid than being
> dual.
>
> The only sane thing to do is fixed-endianness. I'm sure the m68k people
> remember being forced to fix their ext2 partitions back in the bad old
> days. It's painful once, but after that, fixed-endian is a lot more
> efficient and much simpler to handle.

a) you've snipped the critical part ;-)
b) nobody sane uses that beast these days
c) if somebody wants to grow a private patch - it's their time,
after all...

Seriously, though, by now fs/jffs/* has only one real use - extracting
data from old filesystem. IIRC, there was even a talk about having it go
the way of ext and xiafs. He's dead, Jim...
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