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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] omfs: define filesystem structures
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:19:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080328201940.GA3974@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1206578760-9050-1-git-send-email-me@bobcopeland.com>

On Wed 2008-03-26 20:45:54, Bob Copeland wrote:
> OMFS is a proprietary filesystem created for the ReplayTV and
> also used by the Rio Karma.  It uses hash tables with unordered,
> unbounded lists in each bucket for directories, extents for

Why did they create such beast?

> +struct omfs_header {
> +	__be64 h_self;
> +	__be32 h_body_size;
> +	__be16 h_crc;
> +	char h_fill1[2];
> +	u8 h_version;
> +	char h_type;
> +	u8 h_magic;
> +	u8 h_check_xor;
> +	__be32 h_fill2;
> +};

attribute packed or something? Some strange machine (alpha?) may
decide to align u8s at 32bit boundaries...

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-28 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-27  0:45 [PATCH 1/7] omfs: define filesystem structures Bob Copeland
2008-03-28 20:19 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2008-03-28 23:18   ` Bob Copeland
2008-03-29  3:15     ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-03-29 15:29       ` Jamie Lokier
2008-03-30  3:16         ` Bob Copeland
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-04-12 22:58 Bob Copeland
2008-04-13  8:03 ` Christoph Hellwig

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