Re: RFC - new raid superblock layout for md driver

[Alan Cox]

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.

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