[PATCH] md: make md on-disk bitmaps not host-endian

Current bitmaps use set_bit et.al and so are host-endian, which means
not-portable.  Oops.

Define a new version number (4) for which bitmaps are little-endian.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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NeilBrown 2005-11-08 21:39:32 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
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commit bd926c63b7
4 changed files with 31 additions and 8 deletions

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* and major_version/minor_version accordingly
* >=2 means that Internal bitmaps are supported by setting MD_SB_BITMAP_PRESENT
* in the super status byte
* >=3 means that bitmap superblock version 4 is supported, which uses
* little-ending representation rather than host-endian
*/
#define MD_PATCHLEVEL_VERSION 2
#define MD_PATCHLEVEL_VERSION 3
extern int register_md_personality (int p_num, mdk_personality_t *p);
extern int unregister_md_personality (int p_num);