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Re: cross-built filesystems?



> Is it possible to cook up a complete sparc-linux system by mounting
> the SCSI drive on an x86 linux box?  I've read through the ext2fs code
> in the past and been dismayed by the lack of byte-order options (there
> are some easy ways to get it right, too) so I'd guess that it wouldn't
> work on machines of differing byteorder (sparc is bigendian, x86 is
> littleendian...) but I haven't looked at 2.1 yet...

This has been fixed for the last 10 months at least.  I bet you
haven't read the ext2fs code recently.


Miguel.


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