On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 08:27 +0100, Steve Dobson wrote: > Dean > > On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 09:44 +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: > > From what i have read JFS may not be in the kernel much longer. Dont > > know, worth someone filling me in. > > Now you have me worried. Were did you read this? I was thinking moving > some of my partitions to JFS, but if it is going to be removed from the > kernel... > > I had problems with a XFS partition on my MythTV box. A friend had said > that he had encountered problems with his MythTV system and recommended > that the video store be on it's own disk as the IO of a PVR stressed the > disk more than normal usage. Seamed sensible, so I did just that. > > Two years later sure enough I got IO errors on the video store. Bad > blocks with a high logical block address, IIRC. I put the disk to one > side for later testings. > > It took me a while to testing the thing, but I wanted to find out just > how > badly damaged it was. I ran badblocks(8) with the full read/write > tests. > No errors. Clean bill of health. I re-formatted it and re-installed it > in the MythTV box and it's been running fine for 6-12 months now. I'm > waiting to see if it fails again. > > Maybe this was a one off glitch. Maybe its a bug in the XFS code, or in > the > kernel disk subsystem. Unless/until it happens again I can't > investigate to > be sure. But I want a backup plan and if it did prove to be XFS I > would > want to switch to another fast file system and JFS is my next choice. > > So where did you read of this removal of JFS from the kernel? Why it it > being > considered? And how credible is this? Those two little sentences have > really opened a new can of worms.
I've suffered catastrophic data loss to JFS twice on my mythtv box, and once on a critical office machine. Just for the other side of the coin -- ______________________________ / Jo Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ | Systems Manager, | \ Oxford Supercomputing Centre / ------------------------------- \ ,__, \ (oo)___ (__) )\ ||--|| * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]