Thorsten Kukuk wrote: > > On Thu, May 31, Steven Hanley wrote: > > > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:39:09PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:09:16PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > > Cameron Berkenpas wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I thought I read somewhere that XFS is working on PPC.. > > > > > I take it that info was incorrect? > > > > > > > > I think what you read is that "...they are working on it for PPC." > > > > Supposedly an endian-fixed version should be available soonish. > > > > > > > I would believe that XFS wouldn't have any endian problems; since XFS was > > > origionally on a big-endian system (mips/irix) before. > > > > unfortunately not, they had to add a lot of code and change a fiar bit of > > stuff to get XFS to work inside linux, all this work and development was > > done > > on x86 boxen, as to how far they are towards having this working on > > linux/ppc > > now I dont know. > > Since XFS runs stable on UltraSPARC, I see now reason why it should > not work on Linux/PPC. I don't know if the on-disk-format is compatible > between big- and little-endian systems, but this is in the moment no > major problem for me.
I was misquoting someone else when I said it had endian problems. My bad. I should have said that it has powerpc problems, but don't take that as gospel, because I'm just parroting someone else. As for sparc, they say that you can't build a 2.4[.2] kernel on sparc32 right now, so that leaves me out. I even tried SGI's xfs kernel source (on my sparc32 system), it demands egcs-2.91.66 to build, as if. I think maybe I'll try it on the ol' powermac .... a
