Re: [PATCH] 2.5.8 IDE 36

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Tue Apr 16 2002 - 12:00:55 EST


   From: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
   Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:04:02 -0700 (PDT)

   On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
   
> Because for Linux filesystems it was decided some time ago (after people
> HAD huge byteswap problems) that ext2 is always LE, etc, etc. So
> filesystems are supposed to be the same on every system.
   
   In the case of Tivo they are useing a kernel from the time before the fix
   went in so even their ext2 partitions are incorrect (not to mention their
   other partitions that aren't ext2)
   
That's absurd. I made the fix 6 years ago, I doubt they are using a
kernel older than that.
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