"Anthony W. Marino" wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 27 February 2002 05:30 pm, Steve Best wrote:
> > "Anthony W. Marino" wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 27 February 2002 04:46 pm, Steve Best wrote:
> > > > "Anthony W. Marino" wrote:
> > > > > Are there any issues that could arrise if I convert over from
> > > > > ReiserFS?
> > > >
> > > > How are you doing to do the conversion? Are you doing to reinstall or
> > > > use the steps listed in the JFS Root Boot HOWTO?
> > > >
> > > > > My environment is:
> > > > > SuSE 7.3 and Mantel 2.4.18SuSE kernel(JFS1.0.15 support)
> > > > > / (ReiserFS w/2.94 GB avail.)
> > > > > /boot (EXT2)
> > > > > smfs (shm w/125MB)
> > > >
> > > > Steve
> > >
> > > Hi Steve
> > >
> > > I haven't decided. Someone on the SuSE list suggested that I do a
> > > mkfs.jfs. I would prefer not to have to destroy my data, if I don't have
> > > to. What do you suggest?
> >
> > If you have extra disk space you can follow the steps in the JFS Root Boot
> > HOWTO and during this process you are copying over your data and you have a
> > backup of your data on ReiserFS / if you want to keep that around.
>
> Thanks.
> Any concern for performance with large files such as might be found on a very
> active db server?
No, JFS should perform excellent in this type of environment.
>
> Thanks, Again!
> Anthony
>
> > The down-side of doing this manually there are steps you can miss and your
> > system might not boot the first time.
> >
> > BTW, it would be a good idea to backup your data before you put a different
> > file system in your environment.
> >
> > Steve
Steve
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