a solution for people who are having problems with JFS partitions not mounting after an unclean shutdown should change entries in /etc/fstab to check the FS at boot, this normally solved the problem.
On 9/9/05, Michael Segulja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Asher Schaffer wrote: > On 9/9/05, Stef Coene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > Currently, I have a 70 GB partition formatted as ext3. It's a bit slow when > deleting big files so I want to reformat it. But what's the best choice? > XFS is good, but what's the file system check speed? Running fsck on my ext3 > file system takes forever... > > > Stef > > I have heard of problems with XFS with any power outages, bad > shutdowns, etc. I use JFS and have found it very fast (excellent > large file deletes). I'm curious to other people's opinion of it, > doesn't seem to get as much mention here as XFS or Reiser. > > > I have trouble with JFS on my recording partition any time the computer is > rebooted uncleanly. I have lots of problems with the kids hitting the reset > button because they think it's fun! :-) When the system comes back up, my > JFS partitions don't mount. I have to manually run jfs_fsck on them and > then mount them manually or reboot. If I do a clean shutdown it's fine. I'm > wondering if anybody else is having this problem? I'm running Fedora Core > 3. > > The biggest issue with this is it happening when I don't know about it, and > a scheduled recording starts. It records to the root patition since my > video partition isn't mounted, and runs out of space real fast and then > crashes the OS!! > > Anyway, just wanted to put in my experience with JFS. Other than that it > seems very good and very fast on deletes to me as well. > > > Michael Segulja > LMD Computing Solutions, Inc. > (281) 376-8181 | Office. > (281) 300-8285 | Mobile > (281) 576-7230 | Fax > http://www.lmdcs.com > > | > | To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; > | to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. > | - Scott Granneman, Security Focus > | > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users