Gregory Seidman wrote:
It turns out that if one uses the kernel (2.4.x-2.6.x) RAID support (RAID5, anyway, since that's all I've tested), the RAID'd disks cannot be moved to another system with a different endianness. I don't know how hard that
Unfortunately, I haven't gotten into kernel development and, therefore, do not have the necessary expertise to fix it. Is anyone here interested in this issue?
Version 1 superblock support, which was recently added to the 2.6 kernel and mdadm tool, fixes this issue. Metadata is always stored in little endian on disk.
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