From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Justin Piszcz Subject: Re: XFS on x86_64 Linux Question Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:41:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com To: Andi Kleen Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com, Alan Piszcz , linux-raid@linux-kernel.vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > Justin Piszcz writes: > >> Had a quick question, if I re-provision a host with an Intel Core Duo >> CPU with x86_64 Linux; I create a software raid array and use the XFS >> filesystem-- all in 64bit space... >> >> If I boot a recovery image such as Knoppix, it will not be able to >> work on the filesystem correct? I would need a 64bit live CD? > > There used to be a XFS bug that 32bit journals couldn't > be replayed on 64bit and vice versa. This means you couldn't mount > a dirty file system on the other architecture. But this bug has been > long fixed and mounting clean file systems always worked. > > -Andi > Thanks for the prompt reply! I have more confidence in trying x86_64 now :) Justin.