Re: Journaling FS for PPC (was Re: gcc version for kernel compiles)

2001-04-11 Thread MC
Before using ReiserFS (or any other filesystem) on a production system, or a system where you care about the data, I would suggest waiting until at least one or two minor kernel releases have appeared in which there have been no fixes for the filesystem. There were fixes to ReiserFS in both 2.4.2

Re: gcc version for kernel compiles

2001-04-11 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: Peter Cordes wrote: What version of gcc should I use to compile the kernel (from the BK tree). Are there any known problems with 2.95.3? I'm compiling for an SMP machine. (so reordering locking-related things is a bigger problem than on UP.)

Re: Journaling FS for PPC (was Re: gcc version for kernel compiles)

2001-04-11 Thread Andrew Sharp
MC wrote: Before using ReiserFS (or any other filesystem) on a production system, or a system where you care about the data, I would suggest waiting until You can stop right there. You should not be using 2.4 kernels on any production system, not until at least 2.4.7. So says Alan Cox and I

Re: Journaling FS for PPC (was Re: gcc version for kernel compiles)

2001-04-11 Thread thomas graichen
Jason E. Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michel Daenzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AFAIK that should only yet be a problem with gcc-3.0 (which in turn is needed for ReiserFS yet). Speaking as one who would really like to have a journaling FS on my 80Gb FW drive, is ResierFS ready for use on

Re: gcc version for kernel compiles

2001-04-11 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: Peter Cordes wrote: What version of gcc should I use to compile the kernel (from the BK tree). Are there any known problems with 2.95.3? I'm compiling for an SMP machine. (so reordering

Re: gcc version for kernel compiles

2001-04-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: Peter Cordes wrote: What version of gcc should I use to compile the kernel (from the BK tree). Are there any known problems with 2.95.3? I'm compiling for an SMP machine. (so reordering locking-related things is a

Re: gcc version for kernel compiles

2001-04-10 Thread Michel Dänzer
Peter Cordes wrote: What version of gcc should I use to compile the kernel (from the BK tree). Are there any known problems with 2.95.3? I'm compiling for an SMP machine. (so reordering locking-related things is a bigger problem than on UP.) AFAIK that should only yet be a problem with

Journaling FS for PPC (was Re: gcc version for kernel compiles)

2001-04-10 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AFAIK that should only yet be a problem with gcc-3.0 (which in turn is needed for ReiserFS yet). Speaking as one who would really like to have a journaling FS on my 80Gb FW drive, is ResierFS ready for use on PPC? What about XFS?? Thanks! jas.

Re: Journaling FS for PPC (was Re: gcc version for kernel compiles)

2001-04-10 Thread Michel Dänzer
Jason E. Stewart wrote: AFAIK that should only yet be a problem with gcc-3.0 (which in turn is needed for ReiserFS yet). Speaking as one who would really like to have a journaling FS on my 80Gb FW drive, is ResierFS ready for use on PPC? 'Ready' may be a bit exaggerated, but I've been

Re: Journaling FS for PPC (was Re: gcc version for kernel compiles)

2001-04-10 Thread Andrew Sharp
Actually, for people who don't want to waste (or use constructively, depending on your point of view) time screwing with not-ready-for-prime-time stuff like {woody,sid} and/or 2.4.x kernels, ReiserFS for 2.2 kernels works on powerpc but you have to get the endian-challenged-processors' patch for

gcc version for kernel compiles

2001-04-09 Thread Peter Cordes
What version of gcc should I use to compile the kernel (from the BK tree). Are there any known problems with 2.95.3? I'm compiling for an SMP machine. (so reordering locking-related things is a bigger problem than on UP.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] ,