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Re: Journaling Filesystems?



On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 09:04:54AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > I tried ext3 a while ago, and almost fried my system. Still, the power goes
> > > out here often enough that I'd like a journaling filesystem. Does anyone
> > > have some useful experience they could share concerning reiserfs, xfs, etc
> > > on powerpc?
> > 
> > This isn't powerpc specific, better ask on debian-user (or linux-kernel).
> > 
> > (Disclaimer: I'm assuming above filesystems are reasonably endian safe.
> > That's a safe bet since ext2 was converted to little endian, quite a few
> > years back).
> 
> Erm, ...
> 
> i think reiserfs is i386 only right now anyway, ...
> 
> (well they have test version running on alpha, but that is little endian too.
> maybe jfs (ibm, so ti should run on ppc ?) or xfs (sgi, so it should run on
> mips) are safer bets for an endian clear jounraling fs ? Still it is said that
> jfs is not ready at all, and that xfs is not as advanced as reiserfs. Don't
> know about ext3 though.

Actually there are no things called JFS: the original JFS on RS/6000, and the
reimplementation on OS/2. According to recent noise on /., the OSS version is
based on the OS/2 version. Since OS/2 ran on ia32 only (no, Workplace OS on PPC
died long ago)...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds



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