From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Vier Subject: Re: Move md raid5 from intel to sparc? Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:16:47 -0400 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030611211647.GB3717@zero> References: <3EE76EDA.1060000@geodev.com> <200306111908.h5BJ8SsX012002@imsebackup.imse.ksu.edu> <20030611204421.GZ28900@mea-ext.zmailer.org> Reply-To: Tom Vier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-reply-to: <20030611204421.GZ28900@mea-ext.zmailer.org> Content-Disposition: inline To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 11:44:21PM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote: > EXT2 has two on-disk byte orders, and kernel code understands both. > The MD physical format could be handled similarly. Present code > (drivers/md/md.c) becomes rather upset when it sees unexpected things. many years ago, there was ext2-be on m68k and ppc. that was an exception, though, used before the proper cpu_to_le macros were added to the ext2 code. ext2 is specified as le and always has been. -- Tom Vier DSA Key ID 0xE6CB97DA