Re: [PATCH] fix dir2 shortform structures on ARM old ABI

["Josef 'Jeff' Sipek" <jeffpc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 01:32:16PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote:
> 
> > Josef 'Jeff' Sipek, wondering exactly how passionate one can get about
> > structure member alignment :)
> 
> Very.  ;)
> 
> Tossing packed at all the ondisk stuctures bloats things badly on ia64.
> 
> cvs/linux-2.6-xfs> wc -l before.dis
> 166688 before.dis
> cvs/linux-2.6-xfs> wc -l after.dis
> 182294 after.dis
> 
> That's +15606 lines.
 
I'm not done yet! :-P

First of all, the patch I showed you actually breaks a few things that I
still need to fix.

Second, I need to find out whether all the affected structures are always
aligned on some boundary (probably 4 or 8 byte). If there indeed is some
alignment, there might be a way to reduce those 15k extra lines to something
a whole lot less - I hope.

Josef 'Jeff' Sipek.

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