Mike Tran wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 14:31, 3tcdgwg3 wrote: > > I am doing a sparc thingin. I have to build > > the disk images on a x86 system, and move the > > disk to my sparc, for debug/test. Everhting works > > fine, except the MD's SB. I tweaked a bit on MD > > driver, then everything is good. I would think that > > MD should take care the SB format in next release. > > > > This work should start from the MD kernel driver. That is the MD driver > has to write the SB in one known format and converts the SB to the > native cpu after reading it from disk. Next, the MD tools (mdadm, > mdreconf, etc.) will need to follow. > > Neil B, Do you have this work item in mind? Neil's new version 1 superblock, which is present in the 2.5 kernel, addresses the byte ordering issues that are a problem in the current 0.90 superblock of the 2.4 md driver. The new superblock code stores all numeric values in little endian on-disk and converts them to CPU endianness before use. -- Paul - 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
