Re: daddr_t is inconsistent and barely used

Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Thu, 16 Aug 2001 13:14:20 +1000


On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 04:57:34 +0200,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de> wrote:
>In article <9980.997929632@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> you wrote:
>> daddr_t is barely used in the kernel. 2.4.8.
>>
>> The use of daddr_t in freevxfs may give different in core and disk
>> layouts on different machines. Is that intended?.
>
>No, it may not. Please double check.

That is why I said "may". It seemed puzzling that freevxfs used
vx_daddr_t for almost everything but daddr_t for a couple of fields.
An inconsistency with no obvious reason.

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