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microsquire n00b
Joined: 23 Jul 2002 Posts: 1 Location: philadelphia, pa, us
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Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 1:37 am Post subject: Filesystems, Gentoo, and PPC |
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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? |
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rac Bodhisattva
Joined: 30 May 2002 Posts: 6553 Location: Japanifornia
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Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 1:46 am Post subject: |
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If you're interested in using XFS with the benh kernel, have a look at this thread. Due to the overwhelming response , 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). _________________ For every higher wall, there is a taller ladder |
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Gerk Retired Dev
Joined: 07 May 2002 Posts: 435
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Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 6:08 am Post subject: |
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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 |
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Gerk Retired Dev
Joined: 07 May 2002 Posts: 435
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Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 6:09 am Post subject: |
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also FWIW, the ppc-cources pkg already has the XFS patches (is built off of a benh tree too in fact) |
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grendle n00b
Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 7
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Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2002 3:24 am Post subject: |
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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?? |
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BlueShift Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 04 Jun 2002 Posts: 114 Location: Belgium
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Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2002 9:24 am Post subject: |
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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.
Greetings, |
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Gerk Retired Dev
Joined: 07 May 2002 Posts: 435
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Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2002 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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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. |
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dingo n00b
Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Posts: 58
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Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2002 8:58 am Post subject: |
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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. |
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trance Retired Dev
Joined: 06 May 2002 Posts: 13 Location: Santa Clara, CA
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Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2002 10:19 am Post subject: Re: Filesystems, Gentoo, and PPC |
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microsquire wrote: | 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? |
If your putting Linux on a laptop, the ONLY fs that journals the metadata, which is rather critical if you lose power, is guess what ext3.
So what do the die hard ppc devs recommend? EXT3.
Use XFS and the rest at your own risk =)
trance
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Kap n00b
Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Posts: 23 Location: Lima, Peru
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Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 7:08 pm Post subject: Re: Filesystems, Gentoo, and PPC |
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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... |
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