On 14-08-28 02:12 AM, anupam kapoor wrote:
[Thu, 28 Aug 2014 00:54:47 -0400]: "nick" (nick): ,----[ nick ] | Hey Guys, | Thanks for the help so far. I am wondering after reading the btrfs | code for certain functions there seem to | be a lot of u64 variable and function returns of this type. Is this | common in file system due to the disk | being in a certain format and depending on the CPU being big or small | endian that this needed to not reorder | the disk parts that are being read into main memory and preserve the data's ordering? | Cheers Nick `---- on disk format is little-endian.
have a look at https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page for more information.
kind regards anupam
Forget to check the wiki and found what I was looking for. In addition, the code docs for the kernel are some of the best I am ever seen, the only three that even compare are the Yocto Project, Arch Wiki and Red Hat docs. Now I understand why you guys state to read the docs first :). Cheers Nick