Subject: Re: Big/Little endian conversion in FS
To: Manuel BOUYER <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Scott Reynolds <scottr@Plexus.COM>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/15/1997 16:02:07
On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Manuel BOUYER wrote:

> I can see 2 way to decide if we need byte swapping or not:
>  - with a mount option,
>  - autodetect, based on the magic number.
> 
> I prefer the second one.

The first may be useful, as well (particularly if the disk is a bit
scrambled).  I say do both.

--scott