Re: [patch] ext2_fill_super breakage

Nikita Danilov
2002-03-28T15:02:06Z

Arjan van de Ven writes:
>
> > 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 ?

It is not.

>

Nikita.