From: John Adams <johna@onevista.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC - new raid superblock layout for md driver
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 19:10:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200211210010.TAA16071@onevista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1037838652.3241.108.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 07:30 pm, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 23:11, Neil Brown wrote:
> > This brings up endian-ness? Should I assert 'little-endian' or should
> > the code check the endianness of the magic number and convert if
> > necessary?
> > The former is less code which will be exercised more often, so it is
> > probably safe.
>
> From my own experience pick a single endianness otherwise some tool will
> always get one endian case wrong on one platform with one word size.
>
Use network byte order. hton[sl] macros already exist.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-21 0:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-20 4:09 RFC - new raid superblock layout for md driver Neil Brown
2002-11-20 10:03 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-11-20 10:03 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-11-20 23:02 ` Neil Brown
2002-11-22 0:08 ` Kenneth D. Merry
2002-12-09 3:52 ` Neil Brown
2002-12-09 23:50 ` large await discrepancies Joe Pruett
2002-12-10 15:59 ` Joe Pruett
2002-12-12 15:30 ` Joe Pruett
2002-12-10 6:28 ` RFC - new raid superblock layout for md driver Kenneth D. Merry
2002-12-11 0:07 ` Neil Brown
2002-11-20 13:58 ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2002-11-20 23:17 ` Neil Brown
2002-11-20 14:09 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-20 23:11 ` Neil Brown
2002-11-21 0:30 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-21 0:30 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-21 0:10 ` John Adams [this message]
2002-11-21 0:30 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-21 0:30 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-20 16:03 ` Joel Becker
2002-11-20 23:31 ` Neil Brown
2002-11-21 1:46 ` Doug Ledford
2002-11-21 19:34 ` Joel Becker
2002-11-21 19:54 ` Doug Ledford
2002-11-21 19:57 ` Steven Dake
2002-11-21 20:38 ` Doug Ledford
2002-11-21 20:49 ` Steven Dake
2002-11-21 20:35 ` Kevin Corry
2002-11-21 21:29 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-21 21:22 ` Doug Ledford
2002-11-21 20:53 ` Kevin Corry
2002-11-21 21:55 ` Doug Ledford
2002-11-21 23:49 ` DM vs MD (Was: RFC - new raid superblock layout for md driver) Luca Berra
2002-11-21 20:06 ` RFC - new raid superblock layout for md driver Joel Becker
2002-11-21 23:35 ` Luca Berra
2002-11-22 10:13 ` Joe Thornber
2002-12-02 21:38 ` Neil Brown
2002-12-03 8:24 ` Luca Berra
2002-11-20 17:05 ` Steven Dake
2002-11-20 23:30 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2002-11-20 23:48 ` Neil Brown
2002-11-21 0:29 ` Steven Dake
2002-11-21 15:23 ` John Stoffel
2002-11-21 19:36 ` Joel Becker
2002-11-22 7:11 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-20 15:55 Steve Pratt
2002-11-20 23:24 ` Neil Brown
2002-11-20 23:47 Lars Marowsky-Bree
2002-11-21 0:31 ` Neil Brown
2002-11-21 0:35 ` Steven Dake
2002-11-21 0:35 ` Steven Dake
2002-11-21 1:10 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-08 22:35 ` Neil Brown
2002-11-21 19:39 ` Joel Becker
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