Re: [PLUG] hard drive troubles

[Will Dyson <will_dyson@pobox.com>]

gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

> But then you're going to have to figure out how to make Yellow Dog
> read a partition written in little endian format. Presumably, this
> is an option to ext*'s mount(8). (Naive implementation is really

Actually, ext2/3 takes the simpleminded aproach and writes all the 
filesystem metadata in little endian format, no matter the endianness of 
the platform. The performance hit of byte swapping on big endian systems 
is hardly noticeable.

--
Will Dyson
"Back off man, I'm a scientist!" -Dr. Peter Venkman

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