On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 10:02, Matthew Mitchell wrote: > Hello everyone, > > In the interest of keeping around some otherwise-functional Sparcs, I > was asked if it would be possible to move a linux md raid set from an > Intel box to a Sun box. I said, "Sure," and then immediately wondered > about byte ordering -- will this work? Take the SCSI box off of the > intel, plug it into the sparc, and try to run the array... > > Then my next thought was that someone here would know the answer. :) > It will not work. The on-disk MD superblock is written using cpu arch format. Furthermore, let's say you are able to re-create the raid5 array after moving it to the Sun box. What about the filesystem and data? At least you need a filesystem which manipulates its metadata in neutral format for this kind of "move" to work. Regards, Mike Tran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
