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in this thread SubjectRe: Linux-Sparc ext2 compatibility? On
Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:  > As a result,
e2fsprogs on a Sparc will fail most of the e2fsck > regression
tests, since the filesystem formats are incompatible. > This is
bad --- very bad. It means that you can't take a ext2 floppy >
and use it as an interchange mechanism between a Sparc Linux box
and a > i386 Linux box. It means you can't just say, "This
external 1GB scsi > disk has an ext2 filesystem on it". You have
to qualify it with whether > it is a Sparc ext2 filesystem or a
i386 ext2 filesystem. > The question now is --- how do we fix
this? Are there enough Sparc > Linux boxes out there that it's
too late to do a flag day? Do we need > to put a lot of
complexity into the kernel code and the e2fsprogs > utilities so
that we can recognize different versions of the bitmasks > and
do the appropriate byte swapping on the bitmasks? (This can be >
done, but at some perform