From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Stegman Subject: Re: Move md raid5 from intel to sparc? Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:08:28 -0500 (CDT) Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200306111908.h5BJ8SsX012002@imsebackup.imse.ksu.edu> References: <3EE76EDA.1060000@geodev.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3EE76EDA.1060000@geodev.com> To: matthew@geodev.com Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 11 Jun, Matthew Mitchell wrote: > What _about_ the filesystem and data, though? Some filesystems are > certainly written in a known byte-order, like ISO 9660. Are there any > of (ext3, XFS, JFS, reiserfs) that this is true for? Or are they all > written in cpu native byte-order? I know XFS always uses big-endian on disk; one of SGI's selling points was that you can move disks back and forth between MIPS and Intel computers. I think ext2/3 also uses the same format between big and little endian archs. -- -- -Matt Stegman