Re: [PATCH] fix type mismatch in jffs.

[viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 11:54:13AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
> > 
> > JFFS is host-endian.  If you want to make it swing both ways - feel free,
> 
> Please don't.
> 
> Dual-endianness is _evil_.
> 
> Admittedly host-endian is stupid too, but it's less stupid than being 
> dual.
> 
> The only sane thing to do is fixed-endianness. I'm sure the m68k people 
> remember being forced to fix their ext2 partitions back in the bad old 
> days. It's painful once, but after that, fixed-endian is a lot more 
> efficient and much simpler to handle.

	a) you've snipped the critical part ;-)
	b) nobody sane uses that beast these days
	c) if somebody wants to grow a private patch - it's their time,
after all...

Seriously, though, by now fs/jffs/* has only one real use - extracting
data from old filesystem.  IIRC, there was even a talk about having it go
the way of ext and xiafs.  He's dead, Jim...