On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 02:13:35PM +0100, Neil Bird wrote: > Around about 26/10/11 12:28, Stefan Sperling typed ... > >With FSFS repositories, yes, it will work if you copy the files > >onto the new system from the network store (it might not if you try > >to mount a disk from the old system on the new system directly, then > >it depends on OS filesystem support and endianness handling). > > They are FSFS; however, if endianness is *ever* an issue, then > it'll *always* be an issue, surely? > > If it's currently a big-endian SPARC, and I merely copy the repo. > dirs. onto a little-endian x86, if endianness is a problem then that > won't work.
It will be fine if you copy across the network (this handles the differences in endianess just fine). I don't know whether or not it will work if you directly access the filesystem created by solaris sparc with linux x86. It might work, but I haven't tried.
