Re: Initial filesystem design synopsis.

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert Luciani wrote:
> Hi, I was wondering if you'd considered making HAMMER endian neutral. I
> think that would be a very good thing.

Definitely a must.  Swapping integers is no big deal for current processors.  And there are not so many either.

Talking of which, we should flip back those len (and i think protocol?) fields in the IP headers to be in network byte order, so that this confusion "where am i in the code path and are we already host byte order or still network order" stops.

cheers
 simon

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