Re: cramfs in big endian

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On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 09:51:48PM +0100, Andi Drebes wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > I would suggest you to use squashfs instead of cramfs.
> > First, it's newer, it's better, it's actively developed, it doesn't have any
> > limits like the bad cramfs. 
> I'm developing a new linux based firmware for my router which uses cramfs. 
> Switching to squashfs still needs some time. Meanwhile, I have to work with 
> cramfs. As the router uses the big endian format and as my machine works with 
> the little endian format, I'm unable to mount the router's filesystem images.

Making cramfs endianess-independent shouldn't be much work.  Take a look
at the helpers in fs/ufs/swab.h and use them for every ondisk access in
cramfs.  Drop me a not if you need some help.
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