On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 05:56:01PM -0000, stef...@apache.org wrote: > Author: stefan2 > Date: Sun Sep 28 17:56:01 2014 > New Revision: 1628093 > > URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1628093 > Log: > Support FSFS format 7 commits in load balanced mixed-architecture clusters. > > At least theoretically, machines with different endianess or off_t sizes > might access the same repository on e.g. an iSCSI SAN. Then the machine > performing a commit may have a different architecture from the one building > up the transaction. To allow that, even the intermediate (proto-) index > format within those transactions must be platform-independent.
Hi Stefan, If you describe in some more detail how to set it up I can test this scenario for you on OpenBSD with sparc64 (64bit big-endian), amd64 (64bit little endian), macppc (32bit big-endian) and i386 (32bit little endian) machines.
