From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: daddr_t is inconsistent and barely used
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 05:21:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010816052119.A28800@caldera.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200108160257.f7G2vYA18080@ns.caldera.de> <10589.997931660@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>
In-Reply-To: <10589.997931660@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>; from kaos@ocs.com.au on Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 01:14:20PM +1000
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 01:14:20PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 04:57:34 +0200,
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de> wrote:
> >In article <9980.997929632@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> you wrote:
> >> daddr_t is barely used in the kernel. 2.4.8.
> >>
> >> The use of daddr_t in freevxfs may give different in core and disk
> >> layouts on different machines. Is that intended?.
> >
> >No, it may not. Please double check.
>
> That is why I said "may". It seemed puzzling that freevxfs used
> vx_daddr_t for almost everything but daddr_t for a couple of fields.
> An inconsistency with no obvious reason.
vx_daddr_t is for disk structures, daddr_t for core.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-16 3:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-16 2:40 daddr_t is inconsistent and barely used Keith Owens
2001-08-16 2:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-08-16 3:14 ` Keith Owens
2001-08-16 3:21 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2001-08-16 3:52 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-08-16 3:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
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