On 08/06/2015 02:16 AM, Joseph Qi wrote: > On 2015/8/6 13:26, Junxiao Bi wrote: >> Hi Gang, >> >> On 08/06/2015 11:03 AM, Gang He wrote: >>> Hello guys, >>> >>> >From the document(https://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/), it says that >>> >OCFS2 supports x86, x86_64, ia64 and ppc64. I am not sure that this doc is >>> >up-to-date, now, OCFS2 supports any other architecture? e.g. s390x? >>> The second question, since OCFS2 is a cluster FS and support multiple >>> architectures, can a OCFS2 cluster work under a mixed architectures >>> environment? e.g. some nodes are x86, some nodes are ppc64. >> I think ocfs2 works good on le endian, but maybe not on big endian >> though i never test it. From the source code, kernel seemed be prepared >> for big endian, but for tools, maybe not, i found lot of codes reading >> stuff from disk to memory without conversion in fsck.ocfs2. I am not >> sure about other tools, so may need do a full check. >> > Junxiao is right. Most tools are not taking care the endian conversion. > They just treat them as little endian which fits x86. > Maybe we have to do some changes for this. >
OCFS2 supports big-endian architectures. There has been significant effort in making sure that it is big-endian compatible. Though it is capable of running on mixed architectures, we do not recommend it. -- Goldwyn _______________________________________________ Ocfs2-devel mailing list Ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com https://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-devel
