Filesystem "binary compatibility" question

[Jerone Young]

A file systems structures do not change accross architetures. So a PPC
or X86_64 enviroment reads it the same way an i386 enviroment (if they
programmed it right,and as far as I know xfs is).  Now bootable
partions accross different aritectures is another story :-)

If your signature is correct your running FC3 test 2 (and upgraded the
hell out of it), do a clean install and try RC2.

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:57:46 +0200, Matthias Saou
<thias at spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net>
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've tried today for the second time to "save" data from an xfs filesystem
> from an x86_64 machine which doesn't boot anymore. I don't have any other
> x86_64 machine to put the drive in and access it, so I'm not 100% sure
> about this "problem", but :
> 
> When I try to mount that xfs filesystem on an x86 machine (running FC Devel
> and already has some "native" xfs filesystems), I get a nasty segfault...
> so I was wondering about filesystem "binary compatibility" across
> architectures. As I have some ppcs, an x86_64 and plenty of x86, not being
> able to use an existing filesystem across all would definitely make me stay
> away from it, could that be the case with xfs? Does anyone know a way to be
> sure?
> 
> Matthias
> 
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