Re: xfs on Linux on S/390

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 05:21:20PM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
> I am pretty sure no one has ever attempted this, we certainly don't have
> access to one ;-). The code has run on a few architectures now, and comes
> from a 64 bit background (again I do not even know if the S/390 is a
> 32 bit or 64 bit architecture). It should be endian independent, but

The normal case (non 390x) is 31bits ..

> there will almost certainly be something about the S/390 which will
> need work - what is the normal page size? XFS is currently restricted
> to a filesystem block size equal to the system page size.

Most VM devices have a bigger hw blocksize than 512 bytes, usually 4K, 
so that will be already a problem for XFS.


-Andi