[PATCH 12/13] xfs: add version 3 inode format with CRCs

[Eric Sandeen]

Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 03:22:53PM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> ...
>> Index: xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_dinode.h
>> ===================================================================
>> --- xfs.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_dinode.h	2009-02-10 19:45:51.939069576 +0100
>> +++ xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_dinode.h	2009-02-10 19:45:59.195068745 +0100
>> @@ -69,11 +69,32 @@ typedef struct xfs_dinode {
>>  
>>  	/* di_next_unlinked is the only non-core field in the old dinode */
>>  	__be32		di_next_unlinked;/* agi unlinked list ptr */
>> -} __attribute__((packed)) xfs_dinode_t;
>> +
>> +	/* start of the extended dinode, writable fields */
>> +	__be32		di_crc;		/* CRC of the inode */
>> +	__be64		di_changecount;	/* number of attribute changes */
>> +	__u8		di_pad2[16];	/* more padding for future expansion */
>> +
>> +	/* fields only written to during inode creation */
>> +	xfs_timestamp_t	di_crtime;	/* time created */
>> +	__be64		di_ino;		/* inode number */
>> +	uuid_t		di_uuid;	/* UUID of the filesystem */
>> +} xfs_dinode_t;
> 
> Hrm...removing the packed attribute... Eric, do you remember the ARM ABI
> alignment rules? Regardless of ARM, are those fields aligned nicely? (From a
> quick glance at the code looks ok.)

I'll just have to just test it again I suppose.  Removing packed is
good, as long as the padding makes it all come out right.

-=Eric