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From: Roman Mamedov <roman@rm.pp.ru>
To: Markus Hennig <mhennig@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: RAID5 crashed for unknown reason on old 2.6.16 kernel
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:09:24 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100715190924.0f62890a@natsu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilC9tPAVS2UWcJDykDyvkCDZbZjFD-R-h6OxRxi@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:53:50 +0200
Markus Hennig <mhennig@gmail.com> wrote:

> I got all my data back from a degraded RAID5 array with 3 disks.
> The only point which is worth to mention: XFS as underlying file
> system is ineligible for small/cheap NAS because it is not edian safe.
> I bought a powerpc driven MAC to replay the XFS journal...

QEMU can emulate almost every modern architecture while running on almost any
different one, with various degrees of (understandable) slowness.

> That leads to my question to the list: does somebody know if BTRFS is
> endian safe or what is an endian-safe alternative to ext3/ext ?

I'd suggest to use Ext4 for now. You can always convert it to BTRFS at a later
time: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Conversion_from_Ext3

-- 
With respect,
Roman

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      reply	other threads:[~2010-07-15 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-26 21:22 RAID5 crashed for unknown reason on old 2.6.16 kernel Markus Hennig
2010-06-28 15:29 ` Markus Hennig
2010-06-29  6:50   ` Neil Brown
2010-07-15 11:53     ` Markus Hennig
2010-07-15 13:09       ` Roman Mamedov [this message]

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