On Mon, Jul 07, 1997 at 11:11:49PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> I didn't notice this in the linux sources (2.0.x kernel). Do you know when
> this was decided ?

Not exactly.

> If this is a recent change, ...

No, I heard about at least half an year ago.

> how is compatibility achieved ?

AFAIK "fsck" is able to change the byte order.
 
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