Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFC - new raid superblock layout for md driver | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 21 Nov 2002 00:30:52 +0000 |
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On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 23:11, Neil Brown wrote: > This brings up endian-ness? Should I assert 'little-endian' or should > the code check the endianness of the magic number and convert if > necessary? > The former is less code which will be exercised more often, so it is > probably safe.
From my own experience pick a single endianness otherwise some tool will always get one endian case wrong on one platform with one word size.
> > So: > All values shall be little-endian and times shall be stored in 64 > bits with the top 20 bits representing microseconds (so we & with > (1<<44)-1 to get seconds.
Could do - or struct timeval or whatever - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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