Re: Journaling Filesystems?

2000-11-10 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Sven LUTHER wrote: On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 09:04:54AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: I tried ext3 a while ago, and almost fried my system. Still, the power goes out here often enough that I'd like a journaling filesystem. Does anyone have some useful experience

Re: Journaling Filesystems?

2000-11-10 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Michael Schmitz wrote: I don't recall the ext2 'upgrade' being dangerous. And there's always the option of having the kernel byteswap (or not) on the fly, after examining the superblock and deciding what byte order the filesystem is in. That's what we did with ext2

Re: Journaling Filesystems?

2000-11-10 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Actually there are no things called JFS: the original JFS on RS/6000, and the s/no/two/ Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In

Re: Journaling Filesystems?

2000-11-10 Thread Bernd Kulawik
Hi, At 17:22 09.11.00 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: On Thu, Nov 09, Tom Rini wrote: I thought you told me that. :) Hmm, can't remember. But it can not work. Some guys have it running, but the tools doesnt work yet. Gruss Olaf the SuSE-PPC Docbook says (p. 56) with a warning symbol: (my

Re: Journaling Filesystems?

2000-11-09 Thread Michael Schmitz
I tried ext3 a while ago, and almost fried my system. Still, the power goes out here often enough that I'd like a journaling filesystem. Does anyone have some useful experience they could share concerning reiserfs, xfs, etc on powerpc? This isn't powerpc specific, better ask on debian-user

Re: Journaling Filesystems?

2000-11-09 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 04:02:14PM -0800, Peter Abrahamsen wrote: Hullo, I tried ext3 a while ago, and almost fried my system. Still, the power goes out here often enough that I'd like a journaling filesystem. Does anyone have some useful experience they could share concerning reiserfs, xfs,

Re: Journaling Filesystems?

2000-11-09 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 09:04:54AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: I tried ext3 a while ago, and almost fried my system. Still, the power goes out here often enough that I'd like a journaling filesystem. Does anyone have some useful experience they could share concerning reiserfs, xfs, etc

Re: Journaling Filesystems?

2000-11-09 Thread Hadess
Quoting Michael Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I tried ext3 a while ago, and almost fried my system. Still, the power goes out here often enough that I'd like a journaling filesystem. Does anyone have some useful experience they could share concerning reiserfs, xfs, etc on powerpc? This

Re: Journaling Filesystems?

2000-11-09 Thread Tom Rini
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 01:29:52PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote: On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 09:04:54AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: I tried ext3 a while ago, and almost fried my system. Still, the power goes out here often enough that I'd like a journaling filesystem. Does anyone have some

Re: Journaling Filesystems?

2000-11-09 Thread Michael Schmitz
i think reiserfs is i386 only right now anyway, ... Didn't know such a thing was still possible :-) They are, albiet slowly, working on fixing reiserfs. iirc, the only real problem with reiserfs on ppc is that x86 won't be able to read the image, and quite possibly later on when it does

Re: Journaling Filesystems?

2000-11-09 Thread Olaf Hering
On Thu, Nov 09, Tom Rini wrote: [*] SuSE/PPC will be shipping with reiserfs, so they just might be stuck into Tell me more about that :=) Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...

Re: Journaling Filesystems?

2000-11-09 Thread Tom Rini
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 04:52:28PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: On Thu, Nov 09, Tom Rini wrote: [*] SuSE/PPC will be shipping with reiserfs, so they just might be stuck into Tell me more about that :=) I thought you told me that. :) -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/

Re: Journaling Filesystems?

2000-11-09 Thread Tom Rini
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 04:52:28PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: On Thu, Nov 09, Tom Rini wrote: [*] SuSE/PPC will be shipping with reiserfs, so they just might be stuck into Tell me more about that :=) I thought you said they were. :) -- Tom Rini (TR1265)

Re: Journaling Filesystems?

2000-11-09 Thread Tom Rini
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 04:43:44PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: They are, albiet slowly, working on fixing reiserfs. iirc, the only real problem with reiserfs on ppc is that x86 won't be able to read the image, and quite possibly later on when it does work, you'll have to reformat[*].

Re: Journaling Filesystems?

2000-11-09 Thread Olaf Hering
On Thu, Nov 09, Tom Rini wrote: I thought you told me that. :) Hmm, can't remember. But it can not work. Some guys have it running, but the tools doesnt work yet. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...

Journaling Filesystems?

2000-11-08 Thread Peter Abrahamsen
Hullo, I tried ext3 a while ago, and almost fried my system. Still, the power goes out here often enough that I'd like a journaling filesystem. Does anyone have some useful experience they could share concerning reiserfs, xfs, etc on powerpc? Thanks, Peter