Veritas Storage Foundation Portable Data Containers: Cross-Platform Data Sharing 5.0.1 Administrators Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, November 2009

File system considerations
This chapter includes the following topics:
■ Considerations about data in the file system
■ File system migration
■ Specifying the migration target
■ Using the fscdsadm command
■ Migrating a file system one time
■ Migrating a file system on an ongoing basis
■ When to convert a file system
■ Converting the byte order of a file system
Considerations about data in the file system
Data within a file system might not be in the appropriate format to be accessed
if moved between different types of systems. For example, files stored in
proprietary binary formats often require conversion for use on the target platform.
Files containing databases might not be in a standard format that allows their
access when moving a file system between various systems, even if those systems
use the same byte order. Oracle 10g's Cross-Platform Transportable Tablespace
is a notable exception; if used, this feature provides a consistent format across
many platforms.
Some data is inherently portable, such as plain ASCII files. Other data is designed
to be portable and the applications that access such data are able to access it
irrespective of the system on which it was created, such as Adobe PDF files.
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