We are announcing the release of OCFS2 1.2. This release has two new features: 1. It is endian-safe. With this, one can mount the same volume concurrently on x86, x86-64, ia64 and big endian architectures, ppc64 and s390x. 2. It supports read-only mounts. With this, one can mount volumes in read-only mode on read-write and read-only devices. The file system internally uses this feature to auto remount read-only on encountering an on-disk corruption. OCFS2 1.2 is on-disk and network compatible with OCFS2 1.0. One does not need to re-make (reformat) the volume. However, one does need to upgrade the tools. OCFS2 1.2 will not work with ocfs2-tools 1.0. For more, refer to the "What's New in 1.2" section in the FAQ. For information on upgrading from OCFS2 1.0 to OCFS2 1.2, refer to the "Upgrade from 1.0 to 1.2" section in the FAQ. Links: OCFS2: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/ TOOLS: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools/ FAQ: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/dist/documentation/ocfs2_faq.txt The OCFS2 Team