SGI XFS filesystem on ppc works now

[Thomas Graichen]

Thomas Graichen <graichen at innominate.de> wrote:
> [info: XFS is a high performance journaling filesystem from SGI
>        which is currently being ported to linux under GPL]
...
> * keep the following points in mind:

>   - do not use this for your most important data - it seems to work
>     fine but it did not have haevy testing on the ppc yet
>   - if you want to test it as root fs - add a "read-write" to your
>     yaboot.conf for the xfs root entry
>   - be patient - remounting the filesystem read-only on bootup (SuSE)
>     or shutdown (linuxppc) takes a few seconds

one thing i forgot: the tree is based on the normal linux-2.4.0-test5
kernel - so you may get problems with it on exotic hardware - because
this one does not have some things from the paulus, benh or fmlabs
trees in it (but for instance it works fine on my blueberry imac)

t

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