On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Christiano F. Haesbaert
<haesbaert@haesbaert.org> wrote:

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> I'm putting some disks on a sparc64 (ultra5), the problem is that I
> don't have another spare sparc64 machine in case hardware fails.
>
> Could I mount them on an alpha or i386 ?
>
> I'm pretty sure that can't be done in i386 since the endianess is
> different, but alpha shares the same one.

alpha is little endian.  so no, you can't mix and match.

there are also subtleties about disklabels and partition tables and
other stuff that makes moving disks around complicated, even with the
same endian archs.