On Mon, Mar 12, Ben Collins wrote: > > > > - Any caveats with reiserfs ? > > > Yeah, it does not work on sparc (only works on i386, and maybe alpha by > > > now). > > > > Well, reiserfs, iptables and a better vm/mm were my hopes with 2.4.x. > > Guess I'll wait for now. > > I doubt we'll ever see reiser on sparc anytime soon.
swafnir:~ # uname -a Linux swafnir 2.4.2 #10 Mon Mar 12 20:16:22 CET 2001 sparc unknown swafnir:~ # cat /proc/filesystems nodev sockfs nodev shm nodev pipefs nodev proc ext2 minix iso9660 reiserfs nodev nfs nodev devpts swafnir:~ # mount /dev/sda4 on / type ext2 (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5) /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw) /dev/sdc8 on /abuild type ext2 (rw) shmfs on /dev/shm type shm (rw) /dev/sdb4 on /mnt type reiserfs (rw) swafnir:~ # ls -alF /mnt/ total 24709 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 90 Mar 12 20:29 ./ drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 4096 Mar 6 18:10 ../ drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 381 Mar 12 20:31 linux/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25295341 Feb 22 01:00 linux-2.4.2.tar.gz I don't know how stable it is, but at least I can untar a kernel and compile it ;-) This is a 2.4.2 kernel with the PowerPC reiserfs patch. I haven't tried it on a UltraSPARC yet, will follow tomorrow. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.