Re: Initial filesystem design synopsis.

["Thomas E. Spanjaard" <tgen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     The run-time variable is simply identifying what endianess the
>     filesystem is using, allowing the filesystem image (or pieces of it)
>     to be transported between boxes with different endianess without them
>     blowing up.   Machine architectures change all the time, but storage
>     is forver (or at least for longer)... It needs to 'just work'.

You could also just check if the superblock magic happens to be in 
other-endianness.

Cheers,
--
        Thomas E. Spanjaard
        tgen@netphreax.net

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature