On Thu, 2001-11-01 at 22:17, Jean-Francois Landry wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 05:07:49PM +0000, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > Sorry for flooding the list this week. I've taken the week off from work > > to do some databasing and to try and get Debian running on my Lombard. > > Sad, isn't it! > > > > I came across ppckernel.org and noted that the latest build of Debian's > > 2.4 kernel for PPC is 2.4.13-pre1, which is a modified version of the > > main BK (BitKeeper) tree. Is this a recommended version to use for > > Reiser, or should I use a stable BenH kernel? > > > > Are there issues with making Reiser filesystems on Debian PPC? It would > > be useful to have /var, /tmp and /home on Reiser to help recover from > > those battery power outages! > > > RTFM! > > If you carefully study the FAQ on www.namesys.com, you'll see that > Reiserfs has only been tested on x86 and Alpha. So there are quite > probably a number of endianess issues at the least with the code.
Jeff Merkey has been providing endianness patches for a long time, and they have been merged into 2.4 recently. I don't think the problems I and others have experienced with ReiserFS are architecture specific. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
