Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: minixfs and endianness | | From | Jes Sorensen <> | | Date | 12 May 1999 16:24:40 +0200 |
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>>>>> "Oliver" == Oliver Neukum <Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de> writes:
Oliver> Hi, looking at minixfs, especially inode.c, i got the Oliver> impression, that it would fail on bigendian Oliver> architectures. Would someone send me a little fs-image (30K) Oliver> for testing ? I have only ppc available for the forseable Oliver> future.
minixfs is dependant of the native byte order if I remember correctly. Ie. minix and thus minixfs was available natively on m68k systems and changing big endian systems to expect little endian file systems would therefore be wrong. If you want to do something like this you need to add run time detection of the file system byte order.
Jes
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