John Clarke wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 01:25:22 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > > The binary in question is a complete file system. As such it is > > Didn't James say it was a compressed file system?
Yes, Cramfs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cramfs > If so, it's > simply a stream of bytes, No its not. From the web page above: Files on cramfs file systems are zlib-compressed one page at a time to allow random read access. The meta-data is not compressed, but is expressed in a terse representation that is more space- efficient than conventional filesystems. so simply byteswapping the whole thing is not going to work. However, Ian Wienand suggested the cramfsswap tool which it seems was specifically written to deal with this issue. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Good advice for everyone : stay away from churches, mosques and synagouges. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
