Re: [Redhat-s390-list] reiserfs support for s/390

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On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 01:40:29AM -0400, Post, Mark K wrote:
> I'm working on an IBM redbook about Linux/390 distributions.  We had hoped
> to have a chapter about journaling file systems in the book.  I've just
> spent a very frustrating number of hours trying to get mkreiserfs to work on
> a Linux/390 system, and eventually got to the point where it was spitting
> out a message that big-endian architectures are not supported.  I then found
> a linux-kernel mailing list posting from Alan Cox that also mentioned
> reiserfs not supporting big-endian machines when Red Hat 7.1 was being
> prepared for distribution.  Is that _still_ the case?  Are we (literally)
> wasting our time trying to get this to work on Linux/390 at this time?
> Anyone with _definite_ information about this, as opposed to "I heard
> so-and-so'?

I heard that some extra patches are available for bigendian machines,
but have never seen them myself and they have not been integrated into
the the current reiserfs yet.
So some mailinglist for reiserfs should be the best source of information.

cu,

Florian La Roche




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