On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > I don't recall the ext2 'upgrade' being dangerous. And there's always the
> > > option of having the kernel byteswap (or not) on the fly, after examining
> > > the superblock and deciding what byte order the filesystem is in. That's
> > > what we did with ext2 for quite some time.
> >
> > Well, the e2fsck option to do it, ate my FS. Tho it was funky to begin with
> > :)
>
> Sorry to hear that. Worked fine for me but that was years back on m68k
> (and disks used to be a lot smaller those days, which may make a
> difference). There was one broken version of e2fstools early on (pre
> 1.06-4.1) but that only affected a few people AFAIK. My memory may be
> fuzzy but it's been almost four years since... m68k had gone through a few
> endianness changes before so it's well possible that the bitmap byte order
> was already little endian there, and e2fsck -s didn't touch the bitmaps.
E2fsck endian conversion worked fine on my m68k box as well.
I think I even joined PPC soon enough to have it run on my PPC box too.
I don't remember any problem with that.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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