Re: [PATCH] xfs: fix unaligned access in readdir

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 04:48:57PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This patch should fix the issue seen on Alpha with unaligned accesses
> in the new readdir code.   By aligning each dirent to sizeof(u64) we'll
> avoid unaligned accesses.  To make doubly sure we're not hitting
> problems also rearrange struct hack_dirent to avoid holes.

If anyone in Melbourne is getting back from Holidays it would be nice
if we could get this patch into 2.6.24-final still..