Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Mar 2006 11:00:40 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [ANN] Squashfs 3.0 released |
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Jörn Engel wrote: > On Fri, 17 March 2006 11:16:48 +0000, Phillip Lougher wrote: > >>>The one still painfully missing is a >>>fixed-endianness disk format. >> >>We had that argument last year. > > > Yes, I remember. What I don't remember is your opinion on the matter. > Did we reach some sort of conclusion?
Fixed endian isn't necessarily a requirement. Detectable endian is. As long as (a) the filesystem mkfs notes the endian-ness and (b) the kernel filesystem code properly handles both types of endian, life is fine.
For SquashFS, though, I would think that fixed endian would be easy. Since it is byte-packed, just handle endian as you unpack.
Jeff
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