From:   Thomas Graichen <news-innominate.list.sgi.xfs@innominate.de>
Reply-To: Thomas Graichen <graichen@innominate.de>
Subject: XFS on ppc status
Date:   7 Nov 2000 16:02:10 GMT
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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

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