Re: Journaling Filesystems?
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[*]. If you
> > have some time, reiserfs' test-suite (mongo.sh, run for 24hrs) is on the web
> > site someplace...
> >
> > [*] SuSE/PPC will be shipping with reiserfs, so they just might be stuck into
> > providing an easy upgrade path (prolly the same, dangerous, way ext2 did tho
> > :( )
>
> 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 for quite some time.
Well, the e2fsck option to do it, ate my FS. Tho it was funky to begin with
:)
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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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