Re: Custom tftpboot images

[Daniel van Eeden <daniel_e@dds.nl>]

So XFS is not an option for sparc based systems.
How about ReiserFS and JFS?

ReiserFS: http://www.namesys.com/
JFS:      http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/jfs/


Irvin Probst wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 16:10, Irvin Probst wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > As I finally decided to switch back one of my U1 from OpenBSD[1] to
> > Linux, I'm currently building my own tftpboot.img. I'm doing this
> > because I want to try XFS support with sun4u computers
>
>
> Good news: The sparc Debian installer works fine with a XFS root file
> system, the sunhme.c patch included in 2.4.19 works too.
> Bas news: XFS is absolutely unusable with a sparc system, it does not
> survive to a hard power off, the kernel stops at "Starting XFS recovery
> on filesystem" and seats there forever.
> Conclusion: Use ext3, Luke.


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