On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 09:23:57AM -0400, James Moss wrote: > On Friday, 24 August 2001, at 04:54:04 (-0800), Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:45:01PM -0400, James Moss wrote: > > > While toying around on getting potato to finally boot (seems my 1GB of RAM > > > is too much for the potato boot kernel), I've gotten past all the minor > > > roadblocks. I searched through the mailing list archives for powerpc > > > information on journaling file systems. I'd like to use jfs on all of my > > > linux partitions but haven't succeeded in my brief attempt. Might have done > > > something slightly wrong, and I'm definitely open to any "you're a moron, go > > > read this <url>" etc. Thanks. > > > > i would recommend xfs, jfs is very very slow. > > > > I haven't noticed that it's all that bad so far, and for personal reasons I there was a benchmark linked from lwn a couple weeks ago for reiser, ext2, ext3, xfs, jfs and vfat. jfs was clearly the slowest (well vfat was slower but..) xfs was fastest in most tests. > HATE SGI. Anyway, at boot: the default kernel (2.4.9-benh0) doesn't load > because it says "image not found". After verifying that it is in fact there yaboot only supports ext2, 1.2.3 allegedly supports reiser. > by booting an old kernel on an ext2 partition, mounting up the drive and > checking that it's there. This leads me to believe that it just can't do > jfs on boot? All opinions on this matter are appreciated. Thanks. yup yaboot can't read jfs, so you must have an ext2 /boot partition, rtfm for how to correctly setup /etc/yaboot.conf, or just run yabootconfig and it will generate a valid one. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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