b=16438

i=adilger
i=girish

Mounting a filesystem with extents feature will fail on big-endian systems since ext3-based ldiskfs is not supported on big-endian systems. This can be over-riden with "bigendian_extents" mount option.

diff --git a/lustre/ChangeLog b/lustre/ChangeLog
index 5211a34..e56c256 100644 (file)
--- a/lustre/ChangeLog
+++ b/lustre/ChangeLog
@@ -695,6 +695,14 @@ Details    : Checks validity of on-disk block bitmap. Also it does better
              checking of number of applied preallocations. When corruption is
              found, it turns filesystem readonly to prevent further corruptions.
 
+Severity   : normal
+Bugzilla   : 16438
+Frequency  : only for big-endian servers
+Description: Check if system is big-endian while mounting fs with extents feature
+Details    : Mounting a filesystem with extents feature will fail on big-endian
+             systems since ext3-based ldiskfs is not supported on big-endian
+             systems. This can be over-riden with "bigendian_extents" mount option.
+
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 2008-05-26  Sun Microsystems, Inc.