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Re: panic occurs on IA64

To: kenmcd@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: panic occurs on IA64
From: Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan <ananth@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 12:48:54 -0800
Cc: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Hiroshi Aono <h-aono@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
References: <Pine.SGI.4.21.0012060619000.2576811-100000@rattle.melbourne.sgi.com>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Ken McDonell wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Russell Cattelan wrote:
> 
> > Hiroshi Aono wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I tried to run XFS on IA64, but kernel panic occurs.
> 
> The page size on IA64 is unlikely to be 4K bytes, so this already in
> potentially dangerous territory.
> 

We don't really have any manifest constants in XFS tied to 4K, AFAICT.
The only restriction is that blocksize is tied to PAGE_SIZE &
PAGE_CACHE_SIZE ... both of which should be same for a given ARCH.

Internally we had tried XFS on IA64 about 3 months back.
At that time some things were functional and the instability
mostly came from the hardware ...


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Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan ("ananth")
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