On 8/2/05, Dave Kleikamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 16:41 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote: > > On 7/29/05, Dave Kleikamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think there's something about sparc64 that jfs isn't handling > > > correctly. I've run a lot on ppc64, so I don't know what the difference > > > would be. > > > > > > > Just wondering if you had any ideas about this behavior. I'm willing > > to run any tests or try any patches. For reference it seems to be a > > sparc64 thing since we have the exact same set up on AMD64 and it > > works flawlessly (7 TB JFS volume). > > I have a theory that jfs's use of 24-bit structures may be causing > alignment problems not seen on other architectures. I have made these > patches to both the kernel and utilities to get rid of bit-fields from > our structures. Can you give them a try? Even if it doesn't fix the > problem, I kind of like it from a cleanup point of view.
I'll give them a try and get back to you. Thanks for looking into this. Alex > -- > David Kleikamp > IBM Linux Technology Center > > > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&op=click _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jfs-discussion
