On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Andi Drebes wrote:
>
> I'll write a new patch for inclusion in the mainline kernel that makes
> cramfs "little endian only". For people who really want to be able to
> mount filesystems with both kinds of endianness there will be a seperate
> patch (not intended to be merged into mainline) available somewhere on
> the net (my website or so). It will definitely be marked as non-official
> in order to prevent people from creating images in big endian.
> Officially, cramfs should only support little endian images.
Good. We do actually have precedence for exactly this kind of situation
before: it's what happened to ext2 as well (people were trying to push a
switch-endian version, and I said no) and the m68k people had their own
patches for a while but we're *so* much better off from being fixed-endian
that it's not even funny.
> If squashfs will be merged, cramfs should be marked as obsolete.
Sounds like that, yes.
Linus
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