From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f7ABLG009148 for linux-mips-outgoing; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 04:21:16 -0700 Received: from dea.waldorf-gmbh.de (u-187-21.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de [62.180.21.187]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f7ABLCV09126; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 04:21:12 -0700 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.waldorf-gmbh.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f7ABJsg24044; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 13:19:54 +0200 Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 13:19:54 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: Seth Mos Cc: Brandon Barker , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: XFS installer Message-ID: <20010810131954.C23866@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <20010810035106.A23548@bacchus.dhis.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from knuffie@xs4all.nl on Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 07:38:15AM +0200 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 07:38:15AM +0200, Seth Mos wrote: > > of XFS on disk has somewhen been changed; the Linux version only supports > > v2 while IRIX 6.2 is rather old so I think only supports v1. Thus both > > flavours are incompatible. > > True, linux suports only v2. I don't know if Irix 6.2 supports the v2 > mode. Another thing to watch out for is that the blocksize must equal > pagesize to be able to als mount it under linux. Urg. MIPS also supports various page sizes and so this will limit the use of XFS for file exchange. Is this planned to be fixed? Ralf