Re: how to actually build SGI's xfs?

[Andi Kleen]

On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 07:55:09PM -0400, James Lewis Nance wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 01:42:44PM -0400, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
> 
> > How do I actually get xfs to build.  I checked the code out of cvs, but it
> > leave me rather confused.  There's supposed to be a README.build file in
> > the top level, but that doesn't exist.  It looks like it's support to
> 
> Let me know if you figure it out, I would like to build it too.  I spent last
> week playing with different file systems.  Reiserfs and jfs patch and compile
> w/o too much trouble.  Xfs and NWFS seem to be missing good instructions on
> exactly how to patch them into the kernel, so I did not play with them.

nwfs is just a module and can be build outside the kernel tree.

xfs requires lots of infrastructure in the kernel that it basically requires
its own kernel tree, which can be gotten from the oss.sgi.com CVS repository.

> 
> BTW, I was quite impressed with JFS.  Its definitly not ready for
> production yet, but its seems slightly faster than reiserfs (for my
> single benchmark, which is to build mozilla on the fs) and its only 2/3
> of the size of reiserfs.  If you want more info, take a look at:

The Linux implementation of JFS is not journaled yet, so it is very likely
to be faster than reiserfs for meta data intensive operations (like 
creating lots of small files in a compile) because it doesn't
do any journal IO.

-Andi