From: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
To: gsslist+linuxraid@anthropohedron.net
Cc: Linux RAID list <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: endianness of Linux kernel RAID
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 09:05:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42F0C117.5020506@steeleye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050803120656.GA16696@anthropohedron.net>
Gregory Seidman wrote:
> It turns out that if one uses the kernel (2.4.x-2.6.x) RAID support (RAID5,
> anyway, since that's all I've tested), the RAID'd disks cannot be moved to
> another system with a different endianness. I don't know how hard that
> Unfortunately, I haven't gotten into kernel development and, therefore, do
> not have the necessary expertise to fix it. Is anyone here interested in
> this issue?
Version 1 superblock support, which was recently added to the 2.6 kernel
and mdadm tool, fixes this issue. Metadata is always stored in little
endian on disk.
--
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-03 13:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-03 12:07 endianness of Linux kernel RAID Gregory Seidman
2005-08-03 13:05 ` Paul Clements [this message]
2005-08-03 15:36 ` Gregory Seidman
2005-08-03 15:51 ` Paul Clements
2005-08-03 18:50 ` Dan Stromberg
2005-08-04 5:14 ` Neil Brown
2005-08-04 6:47 ` Neil Brown
2005-08-04 7:20 ` Daniel Pittman
2005-08-04 11:40 ` Gregory Seidman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-08-09 4:49 Brent Walsh
2005-08-09 4:57 ` Neil Brown
2005-08-11 13:38 ` Brent Walsh
2005-08-18 4:44 ` Neil Brown
2005-08-01 17:42 Gregory Seidman
2005-08-01 18:18 ` Eugene Surovegin
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