On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 09:59 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > We were planning to utilize JFS on SLES9 utilizing IBM's SDD on an IBM > DS6800 Storage array, until I read the readme file (1), which says: > > 3.5 Correction to User's Guide > > o Supported Filesystem Statement > > In the current User's Guide, we make various > statements regarding > specific filesystem support. For Linux 2.6 kernels > (the SLES 9 and > RHEL 4 distributions) SDD will only support the > following filesystems: > > o ext2 > o ext3 > > Please ensure that you do not run any other > filesystems on your SDD > vpath devices. > > Maybe someone can help me understand why JFS would not be supported in > this type of configuration.
In the RHEL 4 case, it makes sense, since those are the only native file systems that Redhat supports. They neither build the other major file systems (jfs, xfs, reiserfs), nor are they eager to accept patches to these file systems to keep their kernel source tree up to date. I know of no technical issues why jfs wouldn't be supported on SLES 9. Maybe it's an issue of not wanting to test too many configurations. > The last line mentions the vpath devices. We are going to be > utilizing LVM, with vpath devices, but would not be formatting the > vpath devices directly. Any idea if this may be supported? > > > (1): > ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/subsystem/linux/1.6.0.1-8/rd_linux.2.6.txt > -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jfs-discussion
