Re: [htdig] sharing databases between platforms?

[Darrell G. <da...@cx...>]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 07:15:51PM -0500, Geoff Hutchison wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Darrell Golliher wrote:
> 
> >   Is it possible to share the same databases between Linux running on
> > Intel hardware and Solaris running on Sparc hardware?  
> 
> The database file is binary, so there are bigendian/littleendian issues
> between Intel and SPARC. There are often other problems with transferring
> across different OS (e.g. Solaris/x86 v. Linux/x86).
> 
> >   BTW, I've been trying all this with 3.1.6 snapshots.
> 
> In that case, you should take a look at the documentation for the htdump
> and htload programs. Check in the htdoc/ directory of a snapshot.
> 
> The htdump program spits out an ASCII representation of the databases,
> which is naturally cross-platform. Htload on the other hand, will load
> databases from an ASCII representation. Should solve your problem.
> 
   
   Thanks for the reply.  I'll check out htdump and htload.

  If it's only a matter of bigendian/littleendian do you think it would
 be valid to run the binary databases through "dd swab"? to get a
 working version for other architecture?

-Darrell Golliher