on-the-wire data is big-endian

[in large part pulled from Alexey's patch]
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: NTrond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Acked-by: NNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>