[suse-sparc] reiserfs for SuSE Sparc?

From: Robert Barta (rho@bigpond.net.au)
Date: Sun Jul 08 2001 - 05:12:46 PDT

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    From: Robert Barta <rho@bigpond.net.au>
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    Subject: [suse-sparc] reiserfs for SuSE Sparc?
    

    From: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk@suse.de)
    Date: Wed Nov 01 2000 - 00:57:12 PST
    > A kernel with reiserfs cannot work on SPARC. The reiserfs people are
    > working on a 64bit version (1. step you need), but the whole code
    > does not compile on big-endian machines (second step you need).

    In one of my (rare) daredevil attacks I tried to patch the linux-2.2.18.SuSE
    kernel of the SPARC distribution with the 'best fitting' reiserfs patch. The
    patch failed and the follow compilation did as well.

    Does someone happen to know the latest status on this? The web is a bit
    non-conclusive for me. As it seems, the patch would work against Debian
    potatoe.

    In the SuSE-7.1 Sparc images, YaST offers to have partions with ReiserFS,
    but fails to execute mkreiserfs (as it is not part of the distribution and
    fails even after installing them with 'do not support BigEndian...').
    YaST2 does not mention them.

    I have already invested days into this (Sparc newcomer, learnt a LOT), so
    I would accept jumping through any hoop. :-)

    \rho

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