Linked by Robert Minvielle on Tue 16th Dec 2003 20:00 UTC
This is the second installment of the "Linux on the Opteron, are we ready?" article. Basically, it is a "where are we now?" article, noting that what once did work now does not, and others that did not work now do. The first article was published on OSNews almost three months ago. Since that time not too much has happened publicly in regards to the amd64 Linux situation, but a lot of people mailed to tell me that I should have checked out SuSE or the new Mandrake which was "about to be released" at that time. Also since that time I have upgraded the RAM and acquired a larger hard disk for the machine. I will give a brief rundown of the system as it stands now, what I tried to install on it, and what works.
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Enter Linux. I've been using Gentoo for quite some time now, and of course that's the first distro I went to when I needed 64-bit linux. ....
From reading the docs they warned of Rieser and XFS problems) so I wanted to play it safe.
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Here is the paragraph you are referencing.
(from http://dev.gentoo.org/~brad_mssw/amd64-tech-notes.html )
We strongly recommend sticking with ext2/3 for now. We have had random reported problems with reiserfs on amd64, and have heard of major problems with running JFS on 64bit systems (which definately seems odd considering it was designed for 64bit systems initially). Though we have had successful reports of XFS, and no negative reports at all.
--end gentoo AMD64 filesystem snippet----
They explicitly state that they have heard only positive
reports from XFS users.