Re: RFC - new raid superblock layout for md driver

On Wednesday 20 November 2002 07:30 pm, Alan Cox wrote:

On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 23:11, Neil Brown wrote:

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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.

Use network byte order. hton[sl] macros already exist.