linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH][e2fsprogs] Move ext2fs_struct_generic

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Message-Id: <1186937841369-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu>
Date:	Sun, 12 Aug 2007 12:57:15 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	jrs@...ibm.com
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, tytso@....edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH][e2fsprogs] Move ext2fs_struct_generic_bitmap back into ext2fs.h

>It turns out the need for this was only in the very first ports of
>Linux to the Powerpc, and there haven't been kernels that would mount
>big-endian superblocks since, oh, 1998 or so (in the 2.0 days).
>
>So probably the better fix is one where we don't allow big-endian
>filesystems any more.  On all modern systems, we use little-endian
>encoding of the superblock, and the bitmaps don't need byte-swapping.

Here's the set of patches to remove the support for the powerpc
big-endian filesystem variant.

						- Ted


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