Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Jul 2007 10:52:53 -0400 | From | "John Stoffel" <> | Subject | Re: Moving MD/LVM from PPC to x86 |
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>>>>> "Neil" == Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> writes:
Neil> On Saturday June 30, turbo@bayour.com wrote: >> Quoting Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>: >> >> > On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 11:02:39PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: >> >> 2. How do I move a VG/PV/LV from PPC to x86? >> > >> > The on-disk LVM2 metadata should be accessible from both >> > architectures. >> >> Well, when I move the disks, the intel machine say that one of >> the disks don't have a partition table and that the other don't >> have any MD superblock...
Neil> Version 0.90 MD superblocks (still the default) uses host-endian Neil> values so you cannot move between architectures directly. Neil> However isn't too hard to make it work.
So if we have version 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 superblocks, why aren't they the default yet? I assume they're useful, so let's use them!
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