Hey all. I'm not on the list, so can you please cc me? Thanks. Anyhow, I've got two questions. First, the website says that the 'latest' e2fsprogs are needed. Does this mean 1.23-WIP is needed or will 1.22 do? I'm assuming it's just a generally good idea. Second, has anyone tested this on a BE machine? I'd like to use this on my PPC. I don't mind testing things out, but it's always nice to know what's coming up. Thanks. -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
Tom Rini wrote:> > Hey all. I'm not on the list, so can you please cc me? Thanks. > > Anyhow, I've got two questions. First, the website says that the 'latest' > e2fsprogs are needed. Does this mean 1.23-WIP is needed or will 1.22 do?1.22 is fine. 1.23-super-latest is needed for the external journal support.> I'm assuming it's just a generally good idea. Second, has anyone tested > this on a BE machine? I'd like to use this on my PPC. I don't mind testing > things out, but it's always nice to know what's coming up. Thanks.I've seen positive reports for ia64 and Alpha (big-endian). It should be OK. You don't hear from people when things work correctly :)
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 07:33:47PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:> > Anyhow, I've got two questions. First, the website says that the 'latest' > e2fsprogs are needed. Does this mean 1.23-WIP is needed or will 1.22 do? > I'm assuming it's just a generally good idea. Second, has anyone tested > this on a BE machine? I'd like to use this on my PPC. I don't mind testing > things out, but it's always nice to know what's coming up. Thanks.E2fsprogs 1.22 should be fine for most things. You only need 1.23-WIP if you want to play with bleeding-edge stuff such as external journal support (which also requires using CVS versions of ext3-2.4, so that should be no surprise). As far as big endian machines, it *should* work, since all of the appropriate fields use the appropriate byte-swapping macros --- and the information in journal is stored in network byte order (i.e. big-endian). I don't know of anyone who's actually tested it, though, I'd be surprised if you found problems. - Ted