Benjamin Lorenz wrote:
> 
> In article <199707031522.RAA09256@x1c19e02.wau.mis.ah.nl> you write:
> 
> >This is a subject that belongs to tech-kern I think. It's not atari specific.
> >I think that a default endianess that conforms to the CPU being used makes
> >sense (faster at least). I don't have very strong opinions about an option
> >to use the 'other' endianess at runtime. Might be nice...
> 
> Linux/68k used a big endian ext2fs for a long time, but in the end
> a decision was made to change it to little endian, to be compatible
> with the i386 ext2fs... Of course, there is a loss in performance.
> 
> Best would be perhaps if NetBSD could decide at mounting time if the
> filesystem has the right byte order to swap reads/writes
> "on the fly" if necessary.

This would be a nice feature. Notice that there was a posting on current-
users about the same subject too. No responses that I know of yet.

Leo.