From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jes Sorensen Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:45:10 +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 >>>>> "Martin" = Martin Wilck writes: Martin> Hi Jes, >> 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. Martin> ReiserFS works on SuSE/IA64. Andreas Schwab told me so (I Martin> wouldn't believe it either), I tried it here (not extensively, Martin> though) and so far I have had no problems. It appears that Martin> ReiserFS "simply" needs a few additional patches the SuSE Martin> kernels include. Hmmm I still wouldn't trust it for any of my data, I have heard of several incidents where people suddenly start seeing crashes and other partitions gets corrupted. >> 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. Martin> It seems that SGI is now providing XFS patches against recent Martin> kernels. Might be worth a try now ... so far I've refused to Martin> use their CVS kernel tree. XFS would certainly be my choice for anything larger than a couple of gigabytes. Jes