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To:     Thomas Graichen <graichen@innominate.de>,
        thomas.graichen@innominate.de
cc:     linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS on ppc status 
In-Reply-To: Message from Thomas Graichen <news-innominate.list.sgi.xfs@innominate.de> 
   of "07 Nov 2000 16:02:10 GMT." <news2mail-8u9922$jid$1@mate.bln.innominate.de> 
Date:   Tue, 07 Nov 2000 17:00:30 -0600
From:   Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>
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Cool, thanks for the update.

Steve

> just as a short note: back in berlin at the weekend i found some time
> to have a look at XFS on the ppc again and here is the result:
> 
> * the current cvs tree no longer needs any significant changes to build
> * there were only two small things: CLOCKS_PER_SEC is not defined in
>   asm/param.h for the ppc - this one is not related to XFS at all
>   looks more like a test10 problem (occures only while compiling
>   fs/binfmt_elf.c) and is easily fixed by defining it there
> * cmd/xfs/dump/dump/content.c cries about O_DIRECT not being defined
>   but as far as i can see it is defined the same way as on i386 in
>   the includes (asm/fcntl.h) - but maybe an indirect include
>   does not get this one (anyone having an idea?) - just
>   commenting out the affected 3 lines gets it going
>   so far (they are only relevant for realtime
>   volumes which are as far as i remember not
>   supported at all so far anyway)
> 
> the resulting system run just fine so far - tested it with the rootfs
> XFS and ran two dbench (one 4 and one 8) parallel for some hours and
> half of a day an dbench 4 parallel to an endless kernel clean build
> - both times no problem so far ... will try to start some of the
> stress testing in the next days (have to get more disk space
> first) ... so far the satus ... my plans are to setup an
> alpha and a ppc here at work now for doing more and
> better stress testing - hope to get this done
> within the next two weeks
> 
> t
> 
> -- 
> thomas.graichen@innominate.com
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