Re: minixfs bitmaps and associated lossage

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sat May 06 2006 - 18:26:04 EST




On Sat, 6 May 2006, Al Viro wrote:
>
> Warning: text below is a mild example of software coproarchaeology,
> so if you are easily squicked by tangled mess of bugs and dumb lossage,
> well... you've been warned.

LOL.

Maybe the right thing to do is to just disable minixfs for anything
big-endian except for m68k.

It's not like it likely matters, and while we could save your description
of the problem as an amusing "how to really f*ck up" episode, I doubt
anybody really _cares_ in this case.

Linus
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