Re: JFS / Unsupported file systems
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Hose wrote:
| On Apr 15, 2008, at 8:49 PM, Chris Walters wrote:
<snip>
|> 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].
|>
|> Anyhow, JFS hasn't given me any problems, and at one time I used it for
|> everything except for my /boot partition.
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|
| I have to agree - I've been using a combo of reiser and jfs for the past
| 5 years as different parts of production systems, and I find both to be
| fairly reliable, and much less annoying to use than ext{2,3}.
| Unfortunately I'm not sure where to go from here on out for the future,
| as JFS *does* seem to be on a dead-end path, and reiser4 isnt even close
| to being standard (then again, even finding a JFS supported live cd can
| sometimes be a hassle). I have a severe dislike for ext, though I
| haven't looked much at 4. Anyone have suggestions? ZFS looks
| interesting, but I've heard mixed things of it in practice.
|
| hose
Hello,
Actually, you usually don't need a LiveCD with support for JFS. You can use a
tool called RIPLinuX (the RIP stands for "Recovery is Possible"). It comes in
the form of a bootable ISO that can be used to do many things. The latest
version is 4.5 - I have not looked at it yet, but it seemed to support JFS,
XFS, Reiserfs 3/4, the EXT 2/3 file systems, and some others, I think. The
link is here.
http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/
As for ext4dev, I tried it, and I wouldn't bother with it, just yet. To enable
it, you must have it enabled in your kernel. Then using the utils is a tricky
proposition - you have to download an older version of e2fsprogs with a patch
and compile the patched version to use any of the utilities on it (e.g. fsck).
It really wasn't all that great, on the performance end, either. I'd rather
wait until they either stabilize it, or someone picks up Reiser4fs and decides
to work on it.
Regards,
Chris
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