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    Make on-disk index representation separate from in-core one · 7a51ed66
    Linus Torvalds authored
    
    
    This converts the index explicitly on read and write to its on-disk
    format, allowing the in-core format to contain more flags, and be
    simpler.
    
    In particular, the in-core format is now host-endian (as opposed to the
    on-disk one that is network endian in order to be able to be shared
    across machines) and as a result we can dispense with all the
    htonl/ntohl on accesses to the cache_entry fields.
    
    This will make it easier to make use of various temporary flags that do
    not exist in the on-disk format.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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