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-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
