On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 4:11 AM, Jonáš Vidra <vidra.jonas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 12:53:48 +0200 Jose R R <Jose.r.r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> is there any reason why Reiser4 SFRN 4.0.1-enabled Debian should not >> run on Power8? I assume GPT should be selected whereas previously I >> have tested -- on AMD64 baremetal and cloud -- only MSDOS disk >> partitioning. > > > There might be some problems with the endianness of the system. > > I have tested Reiser4 on 32bit PowerPC several years ago and as far as I > remember, mounting and using a preformatted partition (mkfs done on an x86 > machine) was possible, but a partition formatted on PowerPC was unusable. > I can repeat the tests, if you are interested. No, I won't bother you with that. Just gathering some preliminary information prior to efforts at building the PPC Reiser4 UDEB module for my Debian-Installer (d-i) hack. Thank you much for your insight on 'endianness of the system'. Best professional Regards. -- Jose R R http://metztli.it --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Try at no charge http://b2evolution.net for http://OpenShift.com PaaS --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- from our GitHub http://Nepohualtzintzin.com repository. Cloud the easy way! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
