diff --git a/clusterd/clusterd b/clusterd/clusterd
index 586e1e8..619ef9f 100755
--- a/clusterd/clusterd
+++ b/clusterd/clusterd
@@ -829,6 +829,15 @@ if ($machine eq 'i686') {
 } elsif ($machine eq 'amd64') {
 	$SYS_lchown=254;		# SYS_lchown in /usr/include/syscall.h
 	$SYS_mknod=14; 			# SYS_mknod
+} elsif ($machine eq 'ppc64le') {
+	$SYS_lchown=16;			# __NR_lchown in /usr/include/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/asm/unistd.h
+	$SYS_mknod=14; 			# __NR_mknod
+
+	$SYS_utimensat=304;		# __NR_utimensat in /usr/include/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/asm/unistd.h
+	$AT_FDCWD=-100;			# /usr/include/linux/fcntl.h
+	$UTIME_OMIT=(1<<30)-2;		# /usr/include/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/bits/stat.h
+	$AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW=0x100;	# /usr/include/linux/fcntl.h
+	$lmtime_sub=\&lmtime_utimensat;
 } else {
 	warn "unknown machine type $machine: symlink ownership can't be set.\n";
 	warn "unknown machine type $machine: named pipes,character and block devices can't be created\n";