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From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Subject: Re: ReiserFS and Reiser4 on AMD64?
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 11:47:55 -0400
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Milan Holz=E4pfel wrote:
| Hello,
|
| I would like know whether you can tell me some state of ReiserFS and
| Reiser4 on AMD64.  I'm asking the the former because the gentoo docs say
| that ReiserFS on AMD64 is not really stable so far ([1]) and the latter
| because I have no idea of Reiser4's state on AMD64.  (but given that
| there was some guy experimenting with Reiser4 on some Sparc 64 Bit
| system and AMD64 is still a little endian system (isn't it?) I'd guess
| that the chance of at least getting it to work would be rather good...)
|
| I'm asking because my new AMD64 hardware will shipped the next days and
| I plan mainly using gentoo Linux in 64-Bit mode with ReiserFS (for a
| "backup" system install) and Reiser4 (for the rest except backups and
| personal data) as far as possible and advisable.
|
| Any hints are appreciated.
| Thanks,
| Milan
|
| [1]:
<URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/technotes.xml?part=3D2&chap=
=3D3#doc_chap3>
|

I'm not sure what "problems" gentoo users are seeing because they've
never been reported to this list, but I have several AMD64 systems and I
haven't seen any problems on them. Outside of the nebulous Gentoo
"reiserfs is unstable on amd64" comments, I haven't heard of any
problems either.

- -Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SuSE Labs
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