On Thu, May 31, Steven Hanley wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:39:09PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:09:16PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > Cameron Berkenpas wrote: > > > > > > > > I thought I read somewhere that XFS is working on PPC.. > > > > I take it that info was incorrect? > > > > > > I think what you read is that "...they are working on it for PPC." > > > Supposedly an endian-fixed version should be available soonish. > > > > > I would believe that XFS wouldn't have any endian problems; since XFS was > > origionally on a big-endian system (mips/irix) before. > > unfortunately not, they had to add a lot of code and change a fiar bit of > stuff to get XFS to work inside linux, all this work and development was done > on x86 boxen, as to how far they are towards having this working on linux/ppc > now I dont know.
Since XFS runs stable on UltraSPARC, I see now reason why it should not work on Linux/PPC. I don't know if the on-disk-format is compatible between big- and little-endian systems, but this is in the moment no major problem for me. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
