Re: Recent PPC Reiser support & Reiser strategy

[Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>]

Michel Dänzer wrote:

> 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.

s/Jeff\ Merkey/Jeff\ Mahoney/, no ?