On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 12:46:11PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> > It would be *much* better to just standardize on one endianness, and be 
> > done with it. That way there are no config options, no confusion, and the 
> > code is smaller, simpler, and faster.
> 
> .. it's also statically checkable with tools like "sparse", so it avoids 
> bugs not only by being simpler, but by simply being fundamentally more 
> robust to start with.

We can do proper typechecking with sparse even for dual-endian filesystems,
see ufs and sysvfs for example.  And yes, for a new filesystems I'd always
chose one endianes and stick to it, but becase I certain someone forgot
that when creating cramfs we're stuck now :)
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