>It turns out the need for this was only in the very first ports of >Linux to the Powerpc, and there haven't been kernels that would mount >big-endian superblocks since, oh, 1998 or so (in the 2.0 days). > >So probably the better fix is one where we don't allow big-endian >filesystems any more. On all modern systems, we use little-endian >encoding of the superblock, and the bitmaps don't need byte-swapping. Here's the set of patches to remove the support for the powerpc big-endian filesystem variant. - Ted - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
