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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] ext2_fill_super breakage
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:50:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CA32D9D.1EF59C5E@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CA2C68E.5B8C4176@zip.com.au> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0203280918190.24447-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> <15523.10878.394037.864862@laputa.namesys.com>


> Explicit initialization always leaves room for some "pad" field inserted
> by compiler for alignment to be left with garbage. This is more than
> just annoyance when structure is something that will be written to the
> disk. Reiserfs had such problems.

such compiler-based padding is architecture specific.. I'd hope the
reiserfs
on disk format isn't architecture specific ?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-03-28 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-28  7:30 [patch] ext2_fill_super breakage Andrew Morton
2002-03-28 13:34 ` Brian Gerst
2002-03-28 13:46   ` Rob Landley
2002-03-28 13:50   ` Jos Hulzink
2002-03-28 17:26   ` Bill Davidsen
2002-03-28 17:27   ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-28 18:13     ` Brian Gerst
2002-03-28 14:21 ` Alexander Viro
2002-03-28 14:36   ` Nikita Danilov
2002-03-28 14:48     ` Alexander Viro
2002-03-28 14:51       ` Nikita Danilov
2002-03-28 15:20         ` Alexander Viro
2002-03-28 14:50     ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2002-03-28 15:01       ` Nikita Danilov
2002-03-28 17:45   ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-28 23:51     ` Alexander Viro
2002-03-29  0:25       ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-29  5:14         ` Andreas Dilger
2002-03-29  8:06         ` Guest section DW
2002-03-29 15:45         ` Bill Davidsen
2002-03-29  0:42     ` Bill Davidsen
2002-03-28 22:45 ` Brian Gerst

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