Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Jun 1999 01:08:14 +0200 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [PPC] ext2 filesytem corruption on linux 2.2.9 PowerPC |
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On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 11:58:38PM +0200, Giuliano Pochini wrote: > >My ext2 filesystem is quickly corrupted on my PowerPC board. > >I suppose a little endian to big endian conversion missing somewhere > >in the ext2 code. > > > >Have you the same problem on PowerPC ? > > No problems here. > AFAIK ext2 on ppc is native big-endian.
No, that's not so (any more). I have a vague recollection that it used to be a long time ago, but (from the e2fsck man page) :
-s This option will byte-swap the filesystem so that it is using the normalized, standard byte-order (which is i386 or little endian).
I think if there were a missing little-endian conversion anywhere, someone would have already found it by now since it is in use on Sparcs, UltraSparcs, MIPS, PPC and m68k based machines, all of which are big-endian.
Have you checked your cables are okay? A friend of mine lost a lot of data once when his scsi cable lost one wire..
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