Hi, I could only find the ext2/3 stuff on the livecd, no reiser/jfs/xfs tools :( I use reiserfs exclusiovely for / and depneding on the situation jfs/xfs. I also note a very high disk usage patterns (excessive head movements) with the ext3 fs compared to the reiserfs (especially during emerge --sync) on the U10s I'm install Gentoo 2005.1 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot the 2005.1 install-universal for sparc64 2.try to mkreiserfs 3. Actual Results: mkreiserfs not found Expected Results: mkreiserfs to be available on the livecd ala x86/amd64
Yes, that's on purpose. We. the sparc devel team, know that reiser, xfs and jfs do not work well for one reason or another. I'm basically the one that does the media lately and did it totally on purpose to avoid users hurting themselves, since they usually don't believe us until it's too late and then cry. In the reiser case in particular it's a kernel problem, the corruption will be very subtle in time. We can't do anything unless the kernel & filesystem developers fix it, and since all the work in kernel-land is going into 2.6 you can't really expect 2.4 to be fixed. We may re-evaluate this on a case-by-case basis once we get a 2.6 kernel that works well enough for every sparc machine around.
This issue still exists as of the 2007 and 2008 sparc64 live CD's is this still a valid issue or can some/all of these filesystem tools be reincluded onto the install media? Thanks
Did the various upstreams fix the various issues with their filesystems and tools on sparc?
I'm not sure. I don't know what the original bugs were that needed fixed or where to find information on them. Specifically I'm wondering about ReiserFS and XFS as a fallback if reiser on sparc is still buggy. I found that the linux distrobution sysrescue (http://www.sysresccd.org/Changes-sparc) has ReiserFS and XFS support (which leads me to think that it works fine on sparc) And I've also found several posts like this: http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org/msg00315.html (Notice the silo kernel version and the comments in the fstab for reiserFS on the sparc arch) Thanks
