Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 15:52:36 +0200 From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> Message-ID: <20010708155236.A13698@suse.de> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] reiserfs for SuSE Sparc?
On Sun, Jul 08, Robert Barta wrote:
> 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.
There is a patch for kernel 2.4.x on
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/jeffm/reiserfs
You need to patch the kernel and the reiserfs tools.
> 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.
I doubt that there is any reiserfs patch for a kernel 2.2.
> In the SuSE-7.1 Sparc images, YaST offers to have partions with ReiserFS,
It's a bug from YaST, it should not offer it if there is no mkreiserfs.
> 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.
Yes, which is the correct way since the big-endian reiserfs support is
very new.
Thorsten
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