Re: xfs install on powermac?

2002-10-15 Thread martine
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 01:20:19PM +0200, Daniel Kobras wrote: > On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 08:57:03PM -0700, Evan Martin wrote: > > I'd like to reinstall with a better file system, but I read that Reiser > > doesn't work with noflushd and XFS does. > > Err, does it? For all I know, noflushd sucks

Re: xfs install on powermac?

2002-10-15 Thread Fred Heitkamp
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Daniel Kobras wrote: > On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 08:57:03PM -0700, Evan Martin wrote: > > I'd like to reinstall with a better file system, but I read that Reiser > > doesn't work with noflushd and XFS does. > > Err, does it? For all I know, noflushd sucks with any journalling F

Re: xfs install on powermac?

2002-10-15 Thread Daniel Kobras
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 08:57:03PM -0700, Evan Martin wrote: > I'd like to reinstall with a better file system, but I read that Reiser > doesn't work with noflushd and XFS does. Err, does it? For all I know, noflushd sucks with any journalling FS. Do you remember where you read about XFS working

Re: xfs install on powermac?

2002-10-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Die, 2002-10-15 at 07:08, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Oct 14 2002, Chris Tillman wrote: > > The 404s are because they are operating from a (apparently > > incomplete) backup server. > > Is there any information on the girl which appears on the 404 > pages of penguinppc? :-) It's Mrs

Re: xfs install on powermac?

2002-10-15 Thread simon . raven
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 20:57:03 -0700, Evan Martin composed: > I saw somewhere (was it this list?) that ext3 is what has been causing > my laptop's hard drive to spin up every few seconds after it has spun down. > > I'd like to reinstall with a better file system, but I read that Reiser > doesn

Re: xfs install on powermac?

2002-10-15 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 14 2002, Chris Tillman wrote: > The 404s are because they are operating from a (apparently > incomplete) backup server. Is there any information on the girl which appears on the 404 pages of penguinppc? :-) Curiously yours, Roger... :-) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: xfs install on powermac?

2002-10-14 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 08:57:03PM -0700, Evan Martin wrote: > I saw somewhere (was it this list?) that ext3 is what has been causing > my laptop's hard drive to spin up every few seconds after it has spun down. > > I'd like to reinstall with a better file system, but I read that Reiser > doesn'

Re: XFS Install

2001-09-26 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Kevin van Haaren writes: > does the benh patch package give me anything different from doing an > rsync against rsync.penguinppc.org? Im Prinzip ja. It gives you the infrastructure to use the patch with all those nifty tools that make kernel building on Debian so much easier. As far as the

Re: XFS Install

2001-09-25 Thread Nico Kist
On Tuesday, September 25, 2001, at 03:00 PM, Kevin van Haaren wrote does the benh patch package give me anything different from doing an rsync against rsync.penguinppc.org? include/linux/version.h from my latest rsync is: #define UTS_RELEASE "2.4.10-ben0" I assume I can just apply the xfs

Re: XFS Install

2001-09-25 Thread Kevin van Haaren
At 9:28 PM +0200 9/24/01, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Jens Schmalzing writes: I will package patches for -xfs and -benh kernels. Just wanted to tell you that with 2.4.10 out, I have packaged the above-mentioned patches. I will upload to auric tomorrow, right now they can be found at deb h

Re: XFS Install

2001-09-25 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Ethan Benson writes: > can we get a kernel-image-powerpc-xfs too? thats the only way > boot-floppies can get support for this. Sure, if an image based on the benh and xfs patches is fine I can package that. But I will wait until kernel-source-2.4.10 arrives, in order to not depend on a non

Re: XFS Install

2001-09-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:28:09PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Jens Schmalzing writes: > > > I will package patches for -xfs and -benh kernels. > > Just wanted to tell you that with 2.4.10 out, I have packaged the > above-mentioned patches. I will upload to auric tomorrow, right now

Re: XFS Install

2001-09-24 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Jens Schmalzing writes: > I will package patches for -xfs and -benh kernels. Just wanted to tell you that with 2.4.10 out, I have packaged the above-mentioned patches. I will upload to auric tomorrow, right now they can be found at deb http://people.debian.org ~jensen/binary-powerpc/ Fee

Re: XFS Install

2001-09-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 01:52:14PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > Right now, I have open ITPs for two packages, but when I finish those > and nobody beats me to it, I will package patches for -xfs and -benh > kernels. This is *not* an ITP, so go for it yourself if you feel like > it. good, th

Re: XFS Install (was: HFS+ (MacOS) in contrast to EXT2(Linux-i386))

2001-09-19 Thread Kevin van Haaren
At 2:07 PM +0200 9/19/01, Michel Dänzer wrote: Kevin van Haaren wrote: >Are you using one of the PPC trees as a basis? PPC isn't fully merged >into Linus' yet AFAIK. No, I wasn't sure I could apply an XFS patch against a PPC tree, or a PPC patch against an XFS patched source so I avoided i

Re: XFS Install (was: HFS+ (MacOS) in contrast to EXT2(Linux-i386))

2001-09-19 Thread Michel Dänzer
Kevin van Haaren wrote: > >Are you using one of the PPC trees as a basis? PPC isn't fully merged > >into Linus' yet AFAIK. > > No, I wasn't sure I could apply an XFS patch against a PPC tree, or a > PPC patch against an XFS patched source so I avoided it. Or is there > a PPC tree with XFS applie

Re: XFS Install

2001-09-19 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: > huh ? where did you looked at it ? i just found > > ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/Release-1.0.1/kernel_patches > > which has 2.4.5 only. A number of patches against more recent kernels are at [1]. I downloaded version 2.4.10-pre8. It applied nicely (read:

Re: XFS Install (was: HFS+ (MacOS) in contrast to EXT2 (Linux-i386))

2001-09-19 Thread Kevin van Haaren
At 10:23 AM +0200 9/19/01, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Woody has a patch for XFS. It's against kernel 2.4.5. There is NO kernel-source package for 2.4.5. So there appears to be no way to do a debian package XFS kernel install at this time. You can build kernel packages with kernel-package fro

Re: XFS Install (was: HFS+ (MacOS) in contrast to EXT2 (Linux-i386))

2001-09-19 Thread Kevin van Haaren
At 12:14 PM +0200 9/19/01, Sven wrote: huh ? where did you looked at it ? i just found ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/Release-1.0.1/kernel_patches which has 2.4.5 only. That said, on the download page, you can read : XFS patches are also available in Debian-unstable ("Sid") which s

Re: XFS Install (was: HFS+ (MacOS) in contrast to EXT2 (Linux-i386))

2001-09-19 Thread Sven
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:23:29AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Kevin van Haaren wrote: > > > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:21:37AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > > Laurent de Segur wrote: > > > > > > Not my experience, when I looked more than a week ago, their FTP > > > site already had patches

Re: XFS Install (was: HFS+ (MacOS) in contrast to EXT2 (Linux-i386))

2001-09-19 Thread Michel Dänzer
Kevin van Haaren wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:21:37AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > Laurent de Segur wrote: > > > > Not my experience, when I looked more than a week ago, their FTP > > site already had patches for early .10-pre versions. > > OK, I spent most of the weekend trying to ge

Re: XFS Install (was: HFS+ (MacOS) in contrast to EXT2 (Linux-i386))

2001-09-18 Thread Kevin van Haaren
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:21:37AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > Laurent de Segur wrote: > > > It's too bad that the XFS module (at least on ppc) is not part of the > > pre-compiled kernel image (ReiserFS is), > > Not really, you still need patches (at least Alan Cox's) to use ReiserFS on > big e