From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id HAA19307; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 07:48:54 -0700 Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id HAA20738 for linux-list; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 07:48:35 -0700 Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id HAA20706 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 07:48:30 -0700 Received: from alles.intern.julia.de (loehnberg1.core.julia.de [194.221.49.2]) by sgi.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/970507) via ESMTP id HAA23157 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 07:48:25 -0700 env-from (ralf@Julia.DE) Received: from kernel.panic.julia.de (kernel.panic.julia.de [194.221.49.153]) by alles.intern.julia.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA15362; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 15:42:19 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle Received: (from ralf@localhost) by kernel.panic.julia.de (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA14054; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 16:40:19 +0200 Message-Id: <199706041440.QAA14054@kernel.panic.julia.de> Subject: Re: The Plan For Userland(tm) To: irish@akira.tampa.sgi.com (Liam Irish) Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 16:40:19 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: ralf@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de, linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com In-Reply-To: <9706041004.ZM2604@akira.tampa.sgi.com> from "Liam Irish" at Jun 4, 97 10:04:56 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk > > Yeah, and if there won't be xfs for linux I'd really like to see ext2 > > support for IRIX ... > > > Ralf > >-- End of excerpt from Ralf Baechle > > > I'd like to do that. I've already been talking to some engineers about it. I > was trying to determine if it already been done. Guess not. I think it'd be > easier to put ext2 on irix than xfs on linux, esp considering the other options > involved with xfs. Would it be 32-bit xfs? > > Anyway. They both interface a VFS, so it should be _too_ bad. Unfortunately, > I haven't seen to much documentation for VFS on irix. Well, see if the Mtn > View engineers will help out in that regard. The other fun thing is that right now David and some other people are rewriting the Linux VFS which also has impact on the ext2 code. Ralf From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Ralf Baechle Message-ID: <199706041440.QAA14054@kernel.panic.julia.de> Subject: Re: The Plan For Userland(tm) Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 16:40:19 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <9706041004.ZM2604@akira.tampa.sgi.com> from "Liam Irish" at Jun 4, 97 10:04:56 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com To: Liam Irish Cc: ralf@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de, linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Message-ID: <19970604144019.gKM2fMTaXxuqte1PRzeXKhSd3V8HEagQ2lc1ahJNQ-Y@z> > > Yeah, and if there won't be xfs for linux I'd really like to see ext2 > > support for IRIX ... > > > Ralf > >-- End of excerpt from Ralf Baechle > > > I'd like to do that. I've already been talking to some engineers about it. I > was trying to determine if it already been done. Guess not. I think it'd be > easier to put ext2 on irix than xfs on linux, esp considering the other options > involved with xfs. Would it be 32-bit xfs? > > Anyway. They both interface a VFS, so it should be _too_ bad. Unfortunately, > I haven't seen to much documentation for VFS on irix. Well, see if the Mtn > View engineers will help out in that regard. The other fun thing is that right now David and some other people are rewriting the Linux VFS which also has impact on the ext2 code. Ralf