Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:12:42 -0800 (PST) | From | Chris Mason <> | Subject | Re: patch: reiserfs 3.6.2 available |
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, David S. Miller wrote:
> It seems that the bitmaps are not handled in an endian-neutral > manner, so a reiserfs filesystem cannot be moved between a big > and little endian machine. > > It seems to handle endianness just fine for other on-disk data > structure, just bitmaps are not handled correctly. See ext2 > for how this can be solved. >
Ok, thanks, we'll take a look. The journal also needs fixes here, and a general endianness audit is still on our todo list.
-chris
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