vxfs file system on eva exported from Red Hat Linux server

[chris huys_4]

Hi Duncan,

> You can, of cxourse get VxFS for Linux, and
> there are ways in newer versions of VxFS of
> making the filesystem transportable across
> platforms....

> But I bet that HPUX VxFS filesystem is sat on
> a LVM logical volume yes? There's no way that
> Linux will be able to interpret the format of
> that, so you'll never even get as high up the
> stack as VxFS...
Actually there is. Suppose it would have been a conversion of the combo LVM/VxFS on HP-UX to VxVM/VxFS on Solaris.
That would have been a minor issue. Turn LVM to VxVM on HP-UX, umount the filesystem, deport the diskgroup, make the volumes accessible to the solaris hosts and import the diskgroup on the solaris side, fsck the vxfs filesystem and mount the filesystem. All in a few hours work for a few TB of filesystems.

The problem with Linux is while the same versions of VxVM and VxFS as in HP-UX/Solaris are also available on Linux/Windows, the difference of little vs. big endian, doesnt, afaik, let the same operation be valid, between a HP-UX and linux.

Greetz,
Chris