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From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bigendian issue with mdadm
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 07:17:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060221061755.GA24192@percy.comedia.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17402.21590.564710.372935@cse.unsw.edu.au>

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:44:22AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
>On Monday February 20, francois.barre@gmail.com wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> Please, Help !
>> 
>> I've created a raid5 array on a x86 platform, and now wish to use it
>> on a mac mini (g4 based). But the problem is : the first is
>> little-endian, the second big-endian...
>> And it seams like md superblock disk format is hostendian, so how
>> should I say mdadm to use a endianness ?
>> 
>
>Read the man page several times?
>
>Look for "--update=byteorder"
>
>You need mdadm-2.0 or later.
>
besides IIRC version 1 super block is always little-endan.

L.

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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-20 21:38 Bigendian issue with mdadm Francois Barre
2006-02-20 23:44 ` Neil Brown
2006-02-21  6:17   ` Luca Berra [this message]
2006-02-21  6:38     ` Neil Brown
2006-02-21  8:37   ` Francois Barre

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