Re: reiserfs

[George Gensure <werkt@csh.rit.edu>]

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Ralf Baechle wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 04:13:06PM -0700, Pete Popov wrote:
> >
> > > Has anyone been able to run reiserfs on big endian systems?
> > I've seen reports of people running Reiserfs on MIPS but I don't know what
> > endianess.
> Some people run it on PowerPC, which is big endian as far as Linux is
> concerned.
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
>                                                 Geert
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
>
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
>                                                             -- Linus Torvalds
Jeff Mahoney, probably the lead big-endian reiserfs developer, has run 
reiserfs on (that I've seen with my own eyes) Sun and Apple (G3 or 
later).  There is no reason his code would not similarly work on 
big-endian mips machines.
-George