[Bug 54848] Re: [Bug 54848] Re: data corrupted on loopback-mounted cramfs image

Tue Aug 8 18:41:45 UTC 2006

> Oh, maybe it's related to the fact that my Ubuntu system is
> x86, while my RHEL4 and SLES10 systems are ia64?  Are cramfs
> images architecture-dependent?

Based on fs/cramfs/README, it doesn't look like cramfs images
are very portable, so I'm probably just rediscovering a known
problem.  x86 and ia64 are both little-endian, but x86 uses
4K pages while ia64 uses 16K pages.  Maybe that accounts for
the problem.

I also noticed that when I mount the x86 Ubuntu cramfs image
on the ia64 RHEL4 box and read a file, cramfs complains about

  Error -3 while decompressing!
  a000000200521a48(1831)->e0000007fa97c000(16384)

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data corrupted on loopback-mounted cramfs image
https://launchpad.net/bugs/54848