Matthew Dillon wrote:
The run-time variable is simply identifying what endianess the
filesystem is using, allowing the filesystem image (or pieces of it)
to be transported between boxes with different endianess without them
blowing up. Machine architectures change all the time, but storage
is forver (or at least for longer)... It needs to 'just work'.
You could also just check if the superblock magic happens to be in other-endianness.
Cheers,
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Thomas E. Spanjaard
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