Subject: Re: ext2fs and byte ordering
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@rochebonne.ibp.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 07/07/1997 23:11:49
On Jul 5, Matthias Scheler wrote
> 	Hi,
> 
> does NetBSD's implementation of the ext2fs handle byte ordering properly?

It will always use native endian.

> AFAIK Linus decided that all ports have to use the i386 byte ordering
> so that e.g. Linux-m68k has to do byte swapping.

I didn't notice this in the linux sources (2.0.x kernel). Do you know when
this was decided ? If this is a recent change, how is compatibility achieved ?

However, this would't be a that much hard change, but I'd prefer to make 
it after 1.3 is out.

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Manuel Bouyer, MASI, Universite Paris VI.
email: bouyer@masi.ibp.fr
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