[Dump-users] Re: Dump deprecation FAQ

[Stelian P. <st...@po...>]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 11:05:35AM +0100, Dragan Krnic wrote:

> >> 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 :-)

Sorry I misread you. I thought you implied that I said dump was
in little endian format because most of today's platforms are
and that we don't care about big endian ones.
> 
> > 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.

I am not pessimistic. "nothing to be done" means "no efforts are
needed" here.

> 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?

I have no idea, in fact I didn't even know that XFS had its own
dump/restore tools :)

Stelian.
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