Hi guys, I was trying to use XFS with Native little-endian on-disk format to
eliminate current big endian/little endian conversions. I did the following
step:
1.- Modify ../fs/xfs/xfs_arch.h (line 274)
/* do we need conversion? */
#define ARCH_NOCONVERT 1
#if __BYTE_ORDER == __LITTLE_ENDIAN
- #define ARCH_CONVERT ARCH_:CONVERT
+ #define ARCH_CONVERT ARCH_NOCONVERT
#else
#define ARCH_CONVERT ARCH_NOCONVERT
#endif
2.- Compile the new kernel
3.- Creat a new xfsprogs RPMS, the xfs_arch.h file was changed with the
previous patch.
4.- Install the kernel.
5.- Install the xfsprogs (Version with changes)
6.- Creat a FileSystem (mkfs -t xfs /dev/sdb2).
7.- Mount a FileSystem (mount -txfs /dev/sdb2 /disk0).
The Hardware used was a Pentium III at 1Mhz, 1 Gbyte of RAM (Dell 1550
Server)
Result.
creat filesystem was okay.
Mount filesystem was okay.
df -h command shows the right information.
mkdir command works.
cd command works (Change directory).
cp files to the filesystem works.
vi on a file works (read operation).
ls does not show entries. (like filesystem empty, directory . and ..
was not showed)
Do i missing something? Or this is not the way to do it, I'm not a kernel
expert, i just
doing it for fun. Is any other way to achive this with XFS?
Thank you
Gustavo Rincon
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