From: Mike Tran <mhtran@us.ibm.com>
To: Matthew Mitchell <matthew@geodev.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Move md raid5 from intel to sparc?
Date: 11 Jun 2003 11:57:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1055350640.1929.28.camel@langvan.austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EE74472.9010505@geodev.com>
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 10:02, Matthew Mitchell wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> In the interest of keeping around some otherwise-functional Sparcs, I
> was asked if it would be possible to move a linux md raid set from an
> Intel box to a Sun box. I said, "Sure," and then immediately wondered
> about byte ordering -- will this work? Take the SCSI box off of the
> intel, plug it into the sparc, and try to run the array...
>
> Then my next thought was that someone here would know the answer. :)
>
It will not work. The on-disk MD superblock is written using cpu arch
format. Furthermore, let's say you are able to re-create the raid5
array after moving it to the Sun box. What about the filesystem and
data? At least you need a filesystem which manipulates its metadata in
neutral format for this kind of "move" to work.
Regards,
Mike Tran
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-11 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-11 15:02 Move md raid5 from intel to sparc? Matthew Mitchell
2003-06-11 16:57 ` Mike Tran [this message]
2003-06-11 18:03 ` Matthew Mitchell
2003-06-11 19:08 ` Matt Stegman
2003-06-11 20:44 ` Matti Aarnio
2003-06-11 21:16 ` Tom Vier
2003-06-11 19:17 ` Mike Tran
2003-06-11 19:31 ` 3tcdgwg3
2003-06-11 19:50 ` Mike Tran
2003-06-11 20:12 ` Paul Clements
2003-06-12 14:45 ` Matthew Mitchell
2003-06-12 15:04 ` Paul Clements
2003-06-13 5:29 ` Neil Brown
2003-06-11 19:24 ` Cal Webster
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