From: Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:54:18 +0000
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 12:47:35AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > > There was a patch floating around to "fix" it but it's not on-disk > > compatible w/ x86 & friends, it just makes things consistent for arm. I > > think packing some of these structures would take care of it, but this > > problem could use some attention & testing I think, it's been floating > > around a long time. > > Do you have a pointer to that patch? Once the unaliged fields are > identified simply using get_unaligned on them should fix this issue. True, but there is the tertiary issue that the packing done by these platforms might mean that the on-disk format is different on different platforms which the XFS folks likely want to avoid if possible. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
