On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Christian Mueller wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> have someone in this list experiance in running the xfs on Linux on s/390.
> I've Patched a 2.4.5 Kernel, with the patches from IBM and XFS. The Kernel
> and the modules was compiled fine.
I have heard that someone was working on something.
> If i format a dasd-Device with xfs it seems to work, but if i mount the
> file-system, the kernel dies and i have "IPL" the system :(
I am not familiar with the term.
> I've read somewhere in the archives of this list, that xfs could only run
> with LVM on s390, is this right?
Not sure.
> If i understand it right, it didn't work, becouse the xfs uses 512 block's
> for some reasons to save and the dasd can handle this right, becouse my
> blocking for DASD is bigger (4096).
XFS needs the pagesize to be equal to the blocksize. Something was
seriuously in the way on S/390 but I can not remember what.
> My Questions: Is there a development to solve this bug. What had to solve
> DASD or XFS? Or have i missunderstood something? Is there somewhere
> documentation for XFS on Linux/390?
Both need some work and information links are in the FAQ.
> Thank you, for u help
>
> Christian Mueller
Cheers
Seth
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