On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 06:25:20PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote:
> > Why (in format v3) is everything in network byte order?
>
> I'm not entitled to answer - I wasn't here when it was born, and the decision
> traces to V2.
It's the reason that was speculated - it makes COW files more transportable.
Ease of manually reading the header wasn't a consideration.
Jeff
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