Matthew Mitchell wrote: > Paul Clements wrote: > > 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. > Any possibility of a backport? If it's not too hairy I don't mind > attempting it myself, but I haven't even looked at md in 2.5. If you just wanted to rip out the superblock code from the 2.5 md.c and use that in 2.4, it probably wouldn't be too bad. The superblock handling code has been improved and modularized quite a bit, and the md driver can now handle various different superblock formats. -- 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
