On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote: > > and why did you strip the part where i googled for you the endianess > of MacOSX on PPC because i clearly statet mysql-data dirs used here > in production went from MySQL 3.x on Windows i686 over MySQL 4.0-4.5 > on Apple OSX *Power PC* to MySQL 5.1/5.5 on Linux x86_64? Because that has nothing to do with the generic issue of moving binary data from one CPU type to another. If you got lucky and something happened to work for you once, great. It's not something people should count on - especially for programs that provide a tool for portability and consistency. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com