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+// -*- mode:C++; tab-width:8; c-basic-offset:2; indent-tabs-mode:t -*-
+// vim: ts=8 sw=2 smarttab
+/*
+ * Ceph - scalable distributed file system
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2014 Cloudwatt <libre.licensing@cloudwatt.com>
+ *
+ * Author: Loic Dachary <loic@dachary.org>
+ *
+ * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ */
+#ifndef __CEPH_TYPES_H
+#define __CEPH_TYPES_H
+
+#include <include/types.h>
+
+#ifndef UINT8_MAX
+#define UINT8_MAX (255)
+#endif
+
+const shard_id_t shard_id_t::NO_SHARD(-1);
+
+ostream &operator<<(ostream &lhs, const shard_id_t &rhs)
+{
+ return lhs << (unsigned)(uint8_t)rhs.id;
+}
+
+#endif