From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756558AbXGIJs6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 05:48:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752443AbXGIJsv (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 05:48:51 -0400 Received: from [84.243.56.243] ([84.243.56.243]:46814 "EHLO aurora.bayour.com" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752301AbXGIJsu (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 05:48:50 -0400 From: Turbo Fredriksson To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Moving MD/LVM from PPC to x86 Organization: Bah! References: <87wsxneqs0.fsf@pumba.bayour.com> <20070629215416.GA12786@agk.fab.redhat.com> <876455erlw.fsf@pumba.bayour.com> <18054.9063.45466.586046@notabene.brown> <873azy4pq0.fsf@pumba.bayour.com> <18065.51428.849286.225118@notabene.brown> X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 92 93 0E 06 94 D6 22 98 1F 0B 5B FE 33 A1 0B X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x788CD1A9 X-URL: http://www.bayour.com/ X-Yow: I'm into SOFTWARE! Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:48:46 +0200 In-Reply-To: <18065.51428.849286.225118@notabene.brown> (Neil Brown's message of "Mon, 9 Jul 2007 15:34:28 +1000") Message-ID: <87r6nh3o1t.fsf@pumba.bayour.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Quoting Neil Brown : > This suggests that the superblock is currently the correct byteorder > for the current host. You use > mdadm --examine --metadata=0.swap /dev/sda1 > when you have moved a devices from one host to different host with the > opposite endian-ness (e.g. bigendian to littlendian). I see, thanx for clarifying this. > Does that make it clear? Absolutely. I just want to be very clear. I don't have a full backup (have no means to backup 1Tb), so I want to minimize the risk of loosing data. I thank you for explaining so that even I can understand :) PS. No sarcasm intended, even IF it should sound like it! I _am_ greatfull. -- Noriega Honduras Marxist South Africa president AK-47 FSF radar FBI congress class struggle SEAL Team 6 colonel Cocaine DES [See http://www.aclu.org/echelonwatch/index.html for more about this] [Or http://www.europarl.eu.int/tempcom/echelon/pdf/rapport_echelon_en.pdf] If neither of these works, try http://www.aclu.org and search for echelon. Note. This is a real, not fiction. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/09/06/eu_releases_echelon_spying_report/ http://www.aclu.org/safefree/nsaspying/23989res20060131.html#echelon