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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC - new raid superblock layout for md driver
Date: 21 Nov 2002 23:11:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1037949088.29451.20.camel@ixodes.goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15835.2798.613940.614361@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au>

On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 20:09, Neil Brown wrote:
> My current design looks like:
> 	/* constant array information - 128 bytes */
>     u32  md_magic
>     u32  major_version == 1
>     u32  feature_map     /* bit map of extra features in superblock */
>     u32  set_uuid[4]
>     u32  ctime
>     u32  level
>     u32  layout
>     u64  size		/* size of component devices, if they are all
> 			 * required to be the same (Raid 1/5 */
Can you make 64 bit fields 64 bit aligned?  I think PPC will lay this
structure out with padding before size, which may well cause confusion. 
If your routines to load and save the header don't depend on structure
layout, then it doesn't matter.
        J


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-11-22  7:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ 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 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  0:10       ` John Adams
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 [this message]
  -- 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  1:10   ` Alan Cox
2002-12-08 22:35   ` Neil Brown
2002-11-21 19:39 ` Joel Becker

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