On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Andi Drebes wrote: > > I'll write a new patch for inclusion in the mainline kernel that makes > cramfs "little endian only". For people who really want to be able to > mount filesystems with both kinds of endianness there will be a seperate > patch (not intended to be merged into mainline) available somewhere on > the net (my website or so). It will definitely be marked as non-official > in order to prevent people from creating images in big endian. > Officially, cramfs should only support little endian images. Good. We do actually have precedence for exactly this kind of situation before: it's what happened to ext2 as well (people were trying to push a switch-endian version, and I said no) and the m68k people had their own patches for a while but we're *so* much better off from being fixed-endian that it's not even funny. > If squashfs will be merged, cramfs should be marked as obsolete. Sounds like that, yes. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
