> The big endian patches change the code to use little endian ordering > for all on-disk structures. IMO this is a mistake, and certainly > costs a dear performance penalty, because on big endian processors, > this method requires converting endianness both ways (reading and > writing) for all meta data.
Sane architectures (sparc64, ppc) have load/store with byte swap instructions and if reiserfs is using them you shouldnt see a performance penalty. cpu_to_le* etc make use of them. Anton
