Re: debian 2.3
ReiserFS works just fine on big endian systems in 2.2. The patch
for 2.4 is also available, from what I've heard. Because the kernel
interfaces were/are changing so rapidly in 2.4, rfs has lagged
behind a bit in the later stages of 2.3 because they don't like
redoing their work every time some kernel interface arbitrarily
changes. Gee, I wonder why. Supposedly the 2.4 problems with rfs
are fixed by compiling with gcc3, but I don't know this for sure.
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Sam Powers wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 08:41:58PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > keep in mind that reiserfs is totally broken on big endian
> > archetectures (m68k, sparc, powerpc) right now. there is work being
> > done and its making progress but none of it is merged upstream yet.
>
> Yeah, hopefully it's on par by the time we release. Right now, it's best to put the first foot forward and hope for the best. In a worst case situation, we can just back out of using reiserfs on big endian arches.
>
> > also sparc and powerpc bootloaders (silo, quik, and yaboot) don't grok
> > reiserfs, but that wouldn't be a problem so long as reiserfs root was
> > not allowed.
>
> Again, it's not such a thing of disallowing as it is more important to discourage. Debian's installer has traditionally been all about flexibility.
>
> > > I would really like to see how we can work in parted. I don't know
> > > that that would fit though.
> >
> > parted would certainly be great for powerpc, the current partitioner
> > (mac-fdisk) is a stinking pile of crap.
> >
> > unfortunatly parted's command line interface leaves some things to be
> > desired (+500M trick to make a 500M partition like fdisk can).
>
> I don't know about parted, but almost anything has got to be better than mac-fdisk ;)
>
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