Re: ARAnyM base image and /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow tarball
On Sat, 21 Apr 2012, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Finn Thain dixit:
>
> >Here's what I did (on x86 Linux):
>
> >$ xz -dc disk.ima.xz | dd conv=swab skip=1 | cp --sparse=always /dev/stdin partition.ext4
> ^^^^^^^^^
>
> Urgh.
That's what I thought at first. Then I figured that it was an Aranym
optimisation (i.e. the aranym disk image format is big-endian to save
work).
Maybe ext4 on m68k is meant to be byte swapped on disk? I decided that
this can't be the case, since an x86 kernel doesn't recognise the byte
swapped filesystem at all and therefore conv=swab would be correct here.
Finn
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