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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 19:00:14 +0200
From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.8 IDE 36
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On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 08:46:31AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > 
> > Note that the above commands are no help in case of plugging TIVO
> > drive into a PC. While they assure that all ext2 filesystems are LE on
> > the media and all sun disklabels are BE on the media, still if you plug
> > in a BE ext2 into the system (or a BE PC partition table), the kernel
> > won't understand them.
> 
> Please use a the network block device, and teach the ndb deamon to just 
> byteswap each word.
> 
> Problem solved, WITHOUT keeping bugs in the IDE driver.

Yeah, that's a pretty cool idea.

> Oh, and performance improved at the same time.
> 
> What are you guys thinging about? There are two rules here:
>  - optimize for the common case
>  - keep the code clean.

There is also this one:

   - don't remove existing features if you don't have an usable
     replacement or users will hate you.

> Both of them say that Martin is 100% right.

Now that you've come up with the NBD idea, I have to agree.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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