According to Scott Reynolds:
>
>On Fri, 26 Jul 1996, Brett Lymn wrote:
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>> Why not just noffs (network order ffs)?  That way you would not need
>> to worry about be/le, you just mount it...
>
>Aieeee!  And alienate the i386 user base?! (Among others...)
>

Ahhh but big endian reads so much better in a hex dump! (says he with
a PentiScum at home....)

>I hope I am misunderstanding you, and this is just an optional filesystem
>in addition to the native byte order ffs. :-)
>

That was my intention.  Apparently others want the capability of being
able to salvage a file system on a non-native architecture, sounds
like a nice thing to have....

I must admit I was thinking more of a file system that was
architecture neutral for data exchange than data recovery.

-- 
Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, AWA Defence Industries
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