Cool, thanks for the update.
Steve
> just as a short note: back in berlin at the weekend i found some time
> to have a look at XFS on the ppc again and here is the result:
>
> * the current cvs tree no longer needs any significant changes to build
> * there were only two small things: CLOCKS_PER_SEC is not defined in
> asm/param.h for the ppc - this one is not related to XFS at all
> looks more like a test10 problem (occures only while compiling
> fs/binfmt_elf.c) and is easily fixed by defining it there
> * cmd/xfs/dump/dump/content.c cries about O_DIRECT not being defined
> but as far as i can see it is defined the same way as on i386 in
> the includes (asm/fcntl.h) - but maybe an indirect include
> does not get this one (anyone having an idea?) - just
> commenting out the affected 3 lines gets it going
> so far (they are only relevant for realtime
> volumes which are as far as i remember not
> supported at all so far anyway)
>
> the resulting system run just fine so far - tested it with the rootfs
> XFS and ran two dbench (one 4 and one 8) parallel for some hours and
> half of a day an dbench 4 parallel to an endless kernel clean build
> - both times no problem so far ... will try to start some of the
> stress testing in the next days (have to get more disk space
> first) ... so far the satus ... my plans are to setup an
> alpha and a ppc here at work now for doing more and
> better stress testing - hope to get this done
> within the next two weeks
>
> t
>
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