Re: reiserfs empirical study (very long)

[Michel Dänzer <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch>]

Christoph Ewering wrote:

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> So i can mark partitions as ext2fs-big or ext2fs-little and the kernel
> supports both methods or by a recompile only one of both methods. So
> every architecture can read with maximum performance from the filesystem.

That's a really bad idea because on the one hand, dealing with either
endianness isn't expensive on sane CPUs and on the other hand, as others
already pointed out, it would significantly decrease code maintainability.
Most changes would probably still happen to the little endian side so big
endian would be constantly broken. By agreeing to one endianness, both benefit
of development.


> I think it is absolutly stupid that x86 rules. They are slower than
> Alphas, use more power than PPCs.

I don't think a lot of people on this list disagree there. ;)


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