FTL and Endianity

[David Woodhouse]

andreev at niisi.msk.ru said:
> But when the ftl_fromat utility creates an ftl partition, it doesn't
> swap any field of the header. So, it doesn't matter on which endianity
> the FTL driver and ftl_format works, it must be the same only. Am i
> wrong?

You're right - except that it does matter in theory. The FTL spec is 
defined as little-endian. So while it would _work_ if you do it all 
backwards, it's technically wrong. 

I'd be happier to fix ftl_format and ftl_check to do the byteswapping than 
to remove same from ftl.c.

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dwmw2