On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 21:59:31 +1300 Wesley Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 14:50, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > On Tuesday 07 February 2006 11:56, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > > > Um, Well. JFS is a time tested filesystem. > > > > See:- > > > > http://jfs.sourceforge.net/ > > > > > > > > It's been an IBM product for many years, was available for O/S2 > > > > > > And it has been pointed out that just because jfs has been > > > available for mainframes on hardware xyz for donkeys years does > > > not imply in any way that its completely new port to Linux on x86 > > > is as reliable or as well tested. > > > > JFS was first implemented for use in/on AIX, the IBM version of > > unix. Then ported to OS/2 on the Intel x86 platform during 1995. > > The OS/2 version was apparently a second version, a rewrite of the > AIX one. The Linux port was of the OS/2 version. > > > > The first release of JFS on Linux was just on six years ago, and > > considered 'production ready' about a year later. Personally, I > > would not call that a "completely new port". > > I personally suspect the reason why it failed on me several times was > that it was not supposed to be used in conjunction with other file > systems. Linux has the VFS for this reason. A combination of FSs should not cause a particular one to fail. If that happenened you would get a kernel panic and probably data corruption/loss across both filesystems. > > > > For the full story, and a pretty decent review of filesystems > > generally please see:- > > > > http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=69 > > > > It's "Informative +5" imho. > > > > All that said, note that I have been running Reiser4 on my lappie, > > and am very satisfied with it and don't intend to change. > > I would rate reiserfs as the best file system I've used, and ext3 as > the second best. One thing it's useful to know is that they work > well together. > > Wesley Parish
