Re: [PPC] ext2 filesytem corruption on linux 2.2.9 PowerPC

Simon Richter (geier@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de)
Sun, 13 Jun 1999 11:51:37 +0200 (CEST)


On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> 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.

Not necessarily. Problems would show up only if you transferred data
between two different systems via carrying a harddisk.

Simon

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