[Pvfs2-users] Building on ppc64 / cross compilation issue

Murali Vilayannur vilayann at mcs.anl.gov
Wed Aug 9 17:46:29 EDT 2006


Hi,
>
> tcp://bio-ppc-head-4:3334/pvfs2-fs
>                       1014G  113G  902G  12% /mnt/pvfs2

Cool!
>
> Three servers each with a 300+G partition.
>
> Is creating a software RAID device for multiple disks still the
> recommended way to use multiple disks on a server?

In addition to the above, I guess you could also run multiple servers (on
different ports) on the same box each of which uses an FS atop an individual
device/partition. I dont think that would be such a great idea though.
thanks!
Murali

>
> Thanks,
> --bob
>
> On Aug 8, 2006, at 4:07 PM, Robert Olson wrote:
>
> > Aha, that did it - got a clean module compile without any warnings.
> >
> > Thanks, and I'll keep y'all updated on our progress.
> >
> > --bob
> >
> > On Aug 8, 2006, at 3:58 PM, Robert Latham wrote:
> >
> >>  I'd build things like this:
> >>
> >> ./configure --build powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu --host \
> >> 	powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu --disable-server \
> >> 	--with-kernel=</wherever/your/kernel/is>
> >> make kmod
> >
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