On Sunday 03 June 2007, Jörn Engel wrote: > +struct logfs_je_spillout { > + __be64 so_segment[0]; > +}__packed; All the on-disk data structures you define in this file have naturally aligned members, so the __packed attribute is not needed. However, I think it causes gcc to generate larger and slower code on some architectures, because now it has to assume that the data structure itself has no more than byte alignment. I'd simply remove all instances of __packed therefore. In order to verify that you got it right in all cases, build with '-Wpadded -Wpacked'. Arnd <>< - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html