Re: aoe fails on sparc64

From: Ed L Cashin (ecashin_at_coraid.com)
Date: 08/31/05

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Date:	Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:50:55 -0400

    Jim MacBaine <jmacbaine@gmail.com> writes:

    > Hello,
    >
    > Using aoe on a sparc64 system gives strange results:
    >
    ...
    > The log says:
    >
    > Aug 31 15:18:49 sunny kernel: devfs_mk_dir: invalid argument.<6>
    > etherd/e0.0: unknown partition table
    > Aug 31 15:18:49 sunny kernel: aoe: 0011d8xxxxxx e0.0 v4000 has
    > 67553994410557440
    > sectors

    OK. 67553994410557440 is 61440 byte swapped in 64 bits, and 30MB is
    61440 sectors, so this should be a simple byte order fix.

    > The system is an Sun Ultra 5, running 2.6.12.5/sparc64 compiled with
    > gcc-3.4.2. e0.0 is exported on a x86 system using vblade-5, and has a
    > size of 30 MB.

    Thanks for the report. 

    -- 
  Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
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