> I´m from the mac-side of live, i do not like options, i like smart
> software that determinds the fs by its own.
Good luck with that approach.
> I like options to force a program to do what I want, maybe doing stupid
> things.
> So i prefer to let the kernel look at the partition-table (or another
> place on the disk) and let the kernel decide to use little or big-endian
> fs-drivers.
The kernel just needs to look at the filesystem superblock to figure out
the endianness. Been there, done that, discontinued support for that
sometime in '97 or so because it wasn't worth it. Boy was I pissed when I
discovered my new kernel couldn't read the disk anymore because I had
always put off the byteswapping, and forgot in the end ...
The point is: what are the chances you can get the runtime byteswapping
patches into the mainstream kernel? When faced with a complexity vs.
inconvenience tradeoff, what will Linus do? Here's a hint: The ext2fs
patches never made it.
Michael
