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 f7AEjOd14297 for linux-mips-outgoing; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 07:45:24 -0700 Received: from dea.waldorf-gmbh.de (u-65-18.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de [62.180.18.65]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f7AEj7V14276; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 07:45:10 -0700 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.waldorf-gmbh.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f7ACcDS24442; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 14:38:13 +0200 Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 14:38:13 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: Nathan Scott Cc: Seth Mos , Brandon Barker , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: XFS installer Message-ID: <20010810143813.A24347@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <20010810035106.A23548@bacchus.dhis.org> <20010810131954.C23866@bacchus.dhis.org> <20010810214211.B282097@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010810214211.B282097@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com>; from nathans@sgi.com on Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 09:42:11PM +1000 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 09:42:11PM +1000, Nathan Scott wrote: > > 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? > > Yes, for the filesystem blocksize < pagesize case anyway - slated > for Linux/XFS 1.1. On IRIX mkfs defaults to a 4K blocksize, which > is fortunate I guess. > > IRIX/XFS supports 512byte through to 64K blocksizes, so having > variable page sizes on Linux/MIPS actually makes sharing easier > on MIPS than on many other architectures. Some chips now support page sizes of 1kb an higher, so the case of filesystems of large blocksize than pagesize is also going to be of some interest. Ralf