on-the-wire data is big-endian

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