ARM64 / Aarch64 future with Artix Linux & F2FS filesystem 25 October 2017, 17:11:31 Hi again everyone, I'm curious what y'all think of ARMv7 & ARMv8 - Does Artix Linux have a future in these architectures? Devuan made an ARM64 Devuan build I use on my Raspberry Pi 3B, its pretty good if you can avoid the filesystem going read-only mode!However, I'm not at all impressed with ARCH Linux's ARM64 build, as it is massively buggy. The mouse will just stop working a short while after installation, which is extremely annoying & deal-breaking if you need to actually do anything with the mouse. Though this may have changed since the last time I used it like a month ago. Would Artix Linux inherit all of the bugs(like the aforementioned one) from Arch Linux?Also, I'm curious about F2FS, I was using it as a root filesystem on Manjaro with a BTRFS boot & it seemed to be quite fast & stable, F2FS is supposed to be a very good filesystem for solidstate-drives & flash-memory kind of stuff, perhaps it would be a good choice for a native filesystem for Artix with ARMv7 / ARMv8 ?I tried to choose F2FS as a root filesystem with BTRFS as boot while installing Artix Linux but I'd gotten an error while trying to do it so I assume F2FS hasn't become supported yet for Artix x64? Any idea when F2FS will become useable on Artix x64 as a root partition & possibly later on as a boot partition?Thank you all in advance for taking the time to read & answer what I have to say, I always greatly appreciate your responses.Team Artix = Team Awesome
Re: ARM64 / Aarch64 future with Artix Linux & F2FS filesystem Reply #1 – 25 October 2017, 23:26:23 The F2FS module is part of our linux-lts, if the GUI installer gives you an error (what was it? you didn't report well here), you can try basestrap (like arch pacstrap). The ARM architecture isn't currently in our near-future TODO list.
Re: ARM64 / Aarch64 future with Artix Linux & F2FS filesystem Reply #2 – 27 October 2017, 21:47:05 Hmm. I will have to give it another go when I get my new M.2 SSD for Christmas
Re: ARM64 / Aarch64 future with Artix Linux & F2FS filesystem Reply #3 – 10 November 2017, 17:12:36 Quote from: nous – on 25 October 2017, 23:26:23The F2FS module is part of our linux-lts, if the GUI installer gives you an error (what was it? you didn't report well here), you can try basestrap (like arch pacstrap). The ARM architecture isn't currently in our near-future TODO list.Hey Nous, sorry I've been taking a while to get back to my threads, I've had a very busy & stressful past few weeks.I've got the F2FS error for you to see now:Installation FailedThe installer failed to create file system on partition /dev/sdb1===================================================Command: mkfs.f2fs /dev/sdb1===================================================F2FS-tools: mkfs.f2fs Ver: 1.9.0 (2017-09-21) Info: Disable heap-based policy info: Debug level = 0 info:Label = Info: Trim is enabled /dev/sdb1 appears to contain an existing filesystem (ext4). Use the -f option to force overwrite.
Re: ARM64 / Aarch64 future with Artix Linux & F2FS filesystem Reply #4 – 11 November 2017, 14:17:47 Quote from: kenny_w – on 25 October 2017, 17:11:31Hi again everyone, I'm curious what y'all think of ARMv7 & ARMv8 - Does Artix Linux have a future in these architectures? Devuan made an ARM64 Devuan build I use on my Raspberry Pi 3B, its pretty good if you can avoid the filesystem going read-only mode!As nous said, this is not likely in any near future.We simply don't have the resources, we are pretty much busy with x86_64 already. 1 Likes
Re: ARM64 / Aarch64 future with Artix Linux & F2FS filesystem Reply #5 – 13 November 2017, 14:39:23 Quote from: artoo – on 11 November 2017, 14:17:47As nous said, this is not likely in any near future.We simply don't have the resources, we are pretty much busy with x86_64 already.Yea, that's okay, I'm just posting about the F2FS error on x86_64 with Artix. Devuan ARM64 isn't going into read-only mode anymore since I've gotten a new micro SD card now too.