From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:59:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.edu.haifa.ac.il (mail.edu.haifa.ac.il [132.74.40.10]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l8JHwruw032089 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:58:55 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.edu.haifa.ac.il (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34B7114B1BD for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:49:29 +0200 (IST) Received: from mail.edu.haifa.ac.il ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.edu.haifa.ac.il [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id Czbk+eY6tdDt for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:49:29 +0200 (IST) Received: from kozanostra (leon.edu.haifa.ac.il [132.74.41.33]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.edu.haifa.ac.il (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0146ADE43 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:49:29 +0200 (IST) From: "Leon Kolchinsky" Subject: Tips on xfs creation on MIPS R5000 machine running Linux? Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:48:30 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1255" Message-Id: <20070919084929.0146ADE43@mail.edu.haifa.ac.il> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: xfs@oss.sgi.com Hello All, Finally I've got my hands on some nice R5000 Model O2 machine with IRIX 6.5 on it. # hinv CPU: MIPS R5000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.1 FPU: MIPS R5000 Floating Point Coprocessor Revision: 1.0 1 180 MHZ IP32 Processor Main memory size: 256 Mbytes Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 512 Kbytes on Processor 0 Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes Data cache size: 32 Kbytes FLASH PROM version 4.13 Integral SCSI controller 0: Version ADAPTEC 7880 Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 Disk drive: unit 2 on SCSI controller 0 CDROM: unit 4 on SCSI controller 0 Integral SCSI controller 1: Version ADAPTEC 7880 On-board serial ports: tty1 On-board serial ports: tty2 On-board EPP/ECP parallel port CRM graphics installed Integral Ethernet: ec0, version 1 Iris Audio Processor: version A3 revision 0 Video: MVP unit 0 version 1.4 AV: AV1 Card version 1, O2Cam type 1 version 0 connected. Vice: TRE I'm intending to install Gentoo on this machine and I need some advice. Following are the commands I've used to create and mount my partitions on some old x86 PC. a) Should I use the same values for all partitions on R5000 ? 1) Creating FS: mkfs.xfs -l internal,size=128m -d agcount=2 –d unwritten=0 /dev/hda1 2) Mount options: mount -o noatime,nodiratime,logbufs=8 Any suggestion for best performance configuration for XFS on this machine? b) If I'd like to replace the old 2GB disk to some new 80GB disk. Would PROM recognize it? Is there any special procedure? c) Anyone has any experience with Gentoo on MIPS as a desktop system (performance, device recognition (i.e. webcam) etc.)? Best Regards, Leon Kolchinsky