Filesystems, Gentoo, and PPC

microsquire · Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 1:37 am Post subject: Filesystems, Gentoo, and PPC

I'm looking at putting gentoo on my TiBook G4 500 - I'm somewhat familar with linux distrubutions on the x86 side.... which will explain the newbee-ness nature of my question. Which journaled filesystems does the benh kernel support at this time and which ones work the best? Ideas?

rac · Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 1:46 am Post subject:

If you're interested in using XFS with the benh kernel, have a look at this thread. Due to the overwhelming response :wink:

, I didn't bother to post it, but I have also made the XFS patches work with a 2.4.19-rc1-benh0 kernel (I am typing this on it now).
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Gerk · Retired Dev Joined: 07 May 2002 Posts: 435

I would be very catious of XFS on ppc.. it has failed irrecoverably on my 3 times, and on fellow user's a couple of time... just a warning

Gerk · Retired Dev Joined: 07 May 2002 Posts: 435

also FWIW, the ppc-cources pkg already has the XFS patches (is built off of a benh tree too in fact)

grendle · n00b Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 7

I have xfs on my ibook. I am a little bit concerned now though if it has failed on others before. I had reiser fail on me on the x86 side, so I did not want to go that route. So far though, it is working well for me.

btw.. anyone have any idea of if/when xfs will be put into the main kernel??

BlueShift · Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2002 9:24 am Post subject:

I've been using Gentoo on my iBook2 for about a month now with the gentoo ppc-sources kernel (is this the same as benh? don't think so). I use ext3 for my root partition and ext2 for the boot partition. No problems so far.
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Gerk · Retired Dev Joined: 07 May 2002 Posts: 435

Yes, the ppc-sources are based on the benh tree (from a little while back), and have a few additional patches, most noticeably the XFS stuff. You can look at the ChangeLog of ppc-sources for more information.

dingo · n00b Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Posts: 58

Using XFS on a powerbook myself. some data in /usr/portage/metadata/ got corrupted, and an emerge rsync would cause somewhat of a panic and emergancy unmount my root partition. A reboot with the gentoo cd and the xfs repair program took care the problem. I cannot figure out how it got corrupted, though.

If I did it all over again I probobly would use ReiserFS or ext3.

trance · Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2002 10:19 am Post subject: Re: Filesystems, Gentoo, and PPC

Kap · n00b Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Posts: 23 Location: Lima, Peru

I've got almost the exact opposite experience. When first installing Gentoo on my iMac, i tried ext3, but it hang up while compiling the compiler it was completely repeatable, with a kernel panic on the filesystem code. Tried ext2 with very similar results; then tried XFS, and never a single lockup.

so, i think the anser is a Definitely Depends...