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Re: JFS / Unsupported file systems



On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:49:44PM -0400, Chris Walters wrote:
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> Alex Samad wrote:
> | Hi
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> Hi Alex,
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> I use JFS, and have been quite satisfied with its performance, and reliability.
> ~ On the subject of dead file systems, if they're going to remove JFS from the
> kernel because IBM is no longer supporting it, then they'd better also remove
> the reiserfs, as well.  It is also totally unmaintained.  [Google 'reiserfs' or
> 'hans reiser' - without the quotes, and you'll see why it is unlikely that it
> will be supported again - his site is down, as well].
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> Anyhow, JFS hasn't given me any problems, and at one time I used it for
> everything except for my /boot partition.
yes i have read about hans, also read bad things about reiserfs. also
read bad things about xfs but i have a ups sho that should be okay.

most of the followup googling I did on jfs seems to give the impression
that jfs is not that fast a fs on lots of small files.


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> Regards,
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