From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Berra Subject: Re: Bigendian issue with mdadm Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 07:17:56 +0100 Message-ID: <20060221061755.GA24192@percy.comedia.it> References: <17402.21590.564710.372935@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17402.21590.564710.372935@cse.unsw.edu.au> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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. -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \