hi, On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 01:19:54PM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 07:38:15AM +0200, Seth Mos wrote: > > > > of XFS on disk has somewhen been changed; the Linux version only supports > > > v2 while IRIX 6.2 is rather old so I think only supports v1. Thus both > > > flavours are incompatible. > > > > True, linux suports only v2. I don't know if Irix 6.2 supports the v2 > > mode. Another thing to watch out for is that the blocksize must equal > > pagesize to be able to als mount it under linux. > > 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. cheers. -- Nathan
