Re: [RFC PATCH 4/7] Btrfs: introduce subvol uuids and times

[Alexander Block]

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Zach Brown <z...@zabbo.net> wrote:
> On 07/05/2012 11:59 AM, Ilya Dryomov wrote:
>
>> What if you are on a big-endian machine with a big-endian kernel and
>> userspace?  Everything on-disk should be little-endian, so if you are
>> going to write stuff you got from userspace to disk, at some point you
>> have to make sure you are writing out bytes in the right order.
>>
>> Alex already does that, so my remarks are moot ;)
>
>
> Yeah, indeed, we were only talking about the ioctl interface crossing
> the user<->kernel barrier :).
>
I decided to not use __leXX variables in the new btrfs_ioctl_timespec
structure because as most arguments found ioctls are currently in cpu
dependent endianess. The kernel will then do the endianess conversion
as it already did with struct timespec.
> - z
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