Subject: Re: [Fwd: mount_ext2fs]
To: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/15/1998 13:41:31
> > The current ext2fs seems to be aware of different endians, but 1.3.2
> > may not be (though I'm not sure, not having checked the actual code).
> > Perhaps, the latest current snapshot might help.
> 
> According to a post from Manuel Bouyer to current-users, I think, the
> bi-endian ffs stuff was in the 1.3 branch, so it should be in 1.3.2
> (unless I was reading the posting wrong).

I think he was saying that the ext2fs system would correctly look for
LE fs's. I'm not sure at all what it'd do with a BE-formatted one.

It's in 1.3. :-)

I think the bi-endian fs support is only for ffs.

Take care,

Bill