On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Henrik Edlund wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Stew Benedict wrote:
>
> SB>
> SB> On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Ryan C. Gordon wrote:
> SB>
> SB> >
> SB> > Are ReiserFS and/or ext3 stable for PPC? If so, has anyone got
> SB> > recommendations for the best way to get them installed on Mandrake/PPC? I
> SB> > just kicked the plug out of my iMac, and had to suffer the wait through a
> SB> > fsck. :)
> SB> >
> SB>
> SB> ReiserFS endian-safe patches are in place. I did a bit of testing a while
> SB> back and found no issues with it. The installer is not setup to propose
> SB> Reiser at the moment on PPC. In my testing, I made a spare partition
> SB> Reiser, then transferred my data, using the reiser tools, edited fstab and
> SB> proceeded to use the new partitions. I did not try to use Reiser on "/".
> SB>
> SB> ext3 is an unknown to me on PPC at this time
>
> What is the procedure then if I want to run Reiser on all my partitions?
> Should I boot from the CD and makefs the partitions before I start the
> install program? Will the instlal program honor already "formatted"
> drives?
>
I have not tried it, so I can't really recommend a procedure. Nor did I
try anything with Reiser and the installer. Obviously Reiser code is in
the installer as it is the same one used for Intel, but at the time I was
more concerned with getting proper partition, ext2, and bootstrap setup
going.
I don't know if yaboot would have any issue or not. You would need the
reiser modules in your initrd for sure.
If you do decide to experiment, I'd like to hear your results.
Stew Benedict
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