[Dump-users] Re: Dump deprecation FAQ

[Dragan K. <dk...@ly...>]

>> in a previous posting you mentioned that dump uses the
>> host endianness...
>
> I don't recall having said that.
> ...
> In fact dump writes the data in the platform endianness 

You just said it again :-)

> Wrt to the filesystem data, ext2/ext3 metadata is in little 
> endian no matter what the host endianess is, so there is 
> nothing to be done.

Don't be so pessimistic. There's always a way out.
What about xfsdump? Of course, one can use xfsrestore to 
recover xfsdump to an ext2/ext3, but is its format 
compatible to your dump's format?

Cheers
Dragan