linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: fix metadata image handling on big endian systems

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Message-ID: <20180409155910.GB2608@thunk.org>
Date:   Mon, 9 Apr 2018 11:59:10 -0400
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: fix metadata image handling on big endian
 systems

On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 04:14:24PM +0200, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> Currently e2image metadata image handling and creating is completely
> broken on big endian systems. It just does not care about endianness at
> all. This was uncovered With addition of i_bitmaps test, which is the
> first test that actually tests e2image metadata image.
> 
> Fix it by making sure that all on-disk metadata that we write and read
> to/from the metadata image is properly converted.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>

Applied, thanks.

					- Ted