From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gregory Seidman Subject: endianness of Linux kernel RAID Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 08:07:04 -0400 Message-ID: <20050803120656.GA16696@anthropohedron.net> Reply-To: gsslist+linuxraid@anthropohedron.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Linux RAID list List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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 would be to fix, but it did mean that when my ancient Mac clone I was using as a server died I couldn't bring the RAID over to my spare x86 Linux box; I had to dedicate other hardware (my dual G4 that I had been happily using with OS X) to the task instead. 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? --Greg