From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Wilck Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:22:24 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] __ia64_syscall ? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Hi Jes, > __ia64_syscall is obsolete. The reiserfs-tools package should use the > syscall() interface instead. What they doing is also wrong on the ia32 > though it happens to work. Thanks for the quick response. > That said please be aware that I do not think reiserfs has been ported > to 64 bit architectures yet. That and the number of severe problem > reports that keeps coming in about it, I'd strongly recommend you stay > far away from it and try a better file system. ReiserFS works on SuSE/IA64. Andreas Schwab told me so (I wouldn't believe it either), I tried it here (not extensively, though) and so far I have had no problems. It appears that ReiserFS "simply" needs a few additional patches the SuSE kernels include. I am currently trying to find out what these patches are. > If you want a journaled > file system, I recommend you take a look at XFS or EXT3. I know that > Martin Petersen got XFS going on the Alpha so it should work fine on > the ia64 as well. It seems that SGI is now providing XFS patches against recent kernels. Might be worth a try now ... so far I've refused to use their CVS kernel tree. Thanks again, Martin -- Martin Wilck FSC EP PS DS1, Paderborn Tel. +49 5251 8 15113