On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 07:28:15PM +0100, Kevin D. Kissell wrote: > If you want to run little-endian, you need to install > the little-endian binaries and libraries. Since I needed > to "swing both ways", I put both a big-endian root and > a little-endian root partition on my Atlas disk, with user/data > partitions that can be mounted on either one - fortunately, > the Ext2FS metadata seems to be consistent regardless > of endianness. Ext2fs on-disk data structures are defined to be little endian. Some very old ext2 filesystems which afaik where all created on Linux/M68K were big endian; for those e2fsck has the option to change the endianess of the filesystem during a fsck run; the current kernel will refuse to accept such big endian ext2 filesystems. Ralf
