Re: [SPAM] Re: XFS, EXT3 or some other?

2006-06-22 Thread Francesco Pietra
On Thursday 22 June 2006 00:23, Gabor Gombas wrote:
 On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 09:58:47AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
  Of course it is quite likely reiserfs has gotten more stable in the
  couple of years since I stopped using it.

 According to what I read here and there. reiserfs3 stabilized after Hans
 Reiser had abandoned it and Chris Mason from SuSE took over
 maintainership. AFAIR it was Chris Mason who implemented ordered mode
 for reiser3, and it was Hans Reiser who opposed Chris' work saying it
 would keep people using reiser3 instead of testing/developing reiser4
 (AFAIK at that time reiser4 was not even near being usable).

 So right now reiser3 should be stable and is backed by a big distro
 (SuSE), while reiser4 is still far from being integrated into the
 vanilla kernel and thus should be treated with some care. On the other
 hand reiser4 has some really new concepts so if someone likes to
 experiment, reiser4 is a good opportunity.

Out of SuSe - which I do not know - may I ask about debian etch (32 and 64): 
reiser3, reiser4, or even some other reiser#? Just because I took that, as 
reiserfs, for good (and I am long using it at 32bit without problems; now 
also at 64bit). Presently my problems are not there; they are about putting 
mpqc at work with difficult molecules: so far - despite my initial 
enthusiasm - it has failed badly.

thanks
francesco pietra

 Gabor


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Re: [SPAM] Re: XFS, EXT3 or some other?

2006-06-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 06:03:09AM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
 Out of SuSe - which I do not know - may I ask about debian etch (32 and 64): 
 reiser3, reiser4, or even some other reiser#? Just because I took that, as 
 reiserfs, for good (and I am long using it at 32bit without problems; now 
 also at 64bit). Presently my problems are not there; they are about putting 
 mpqc at work with difficult molecules: so far - despite my initial 
 enthusiasm - it has failed badly.

So what kind of problems is mpqc giving you?  I know nothing about
quantum chemistry, but I am pretty good at fixing software. :)

Len Sorensen


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Re: [SPAM] Re: XFS, EXT3 or some other?

2006-06-22 Thread Francesco Pietra
On Thursday 22 June 2006 14:46, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
 On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 06:03:09AM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
  Out of SuSe - which I do not know - may I ask about debian etch (32 and
  64): reiser3, reiser4, or even some other reiser#? Just because I took
  that, as reiserfs, for good (and I am long using it at 32bit without
  problems; now also at 64bit). Presently my problems are not there; they
  are about putting mpqc at work with difficult molecules: so far -
  despite my initial enthusiasm - it has failed badly.

 So what kind of problems is mpqc giving you?  I know nothing about
 quantum chemistry, but I am pretty good at fixing software. :)

Hi Lennart:
This is a most welcome invitation.

Below is pasted a message that I addressed this morning  (8.38 UTC) to the 
mpqc community. As such, it could only trigger response from experts in mpqc. 
However, to let you investigating the matter, I could send you files of 
successful and unsuccessful computations. The version of mpqc is just the one 
currently on debian etch amd64.

I don't know if it is a problem of software. It may well be that I am putting 
mpqc to work the wrong way. In particular, I do not undestand whether the 
flexibility of the molecule poses problems to the software, stopping it under 
certain conditions. I do not know how exactly mpcq works, the manual is 
detailed as to commands but I have not found a description of how it works. 
Perhaps, to understand fully, one should look at the source. But, as an 
object oriented program, it must be a hard way. I must also add that what I 
am trying to do is putting quantum calculation on the very hard way; I wonder 
whether other dare so. Not evident from the publications. The problems I am 
investigating are rather for molecular mechanics, and I do so. But molecular 
mechanics tells nothing about most properties of the molecule, except the 
shape and relative energies of conformers.

What will never finish to surprise me is that tout le monde - or about so - 
does such computations with a commercial software, released (at a very high 
price) for commercial Linux under the understanding that installation of 
Linux must be that of the CD, no variations. Sic. It surprises me because I 
can not figure how users can understand what they are doing with such 
inmperscrutable packages. At any event, these computations end on the most 
respectable chemical journals.

Tell me what you want.

cheers
francesco
__
Although this may well be a premature ask for help, it might result in 
suggesting me a general approach.

mpqc 2.3.0 runs correctly (amd64 debian etch, parallel mode with four nodes, 
dual opteron) for simple molecules, B3LYP simple input, as given in the 
manual with water.in. For example, the energy difference between the two ax 
and eq conformers of methylcyclohexane (input from molecular-mechanics 
minimized structures) is evaluated 1.8 kcal/mol, in accordance with the 
experimental value. In both cases the calculation reached convergence 
extremely rapidly and the energy was furnished as Molecular Energy.

With molecules of the size C22H25NO6 involving benzene ring, unsaturated 
conjugated ring and helicity problems, so far I was unable to reach 
convergence. Either one of the two most stable conformers used for input with 
the water template (basis set 3-21G* or higher) with coordinates furnished as 
described above for the methylcyclohexanes, was not brought to conclusion. In 
most instances the calculation hangs after a few cycles of iterations and the 
prompt is not furnished; I can examine from the *.out file each  molecule 
for each iteration set and found it correct, with all atoms - including 
hydrogens - where they should be. Also, the general conformation was not much 
changed, except for minor details. 

In another instance the above calculations went farther (about four hours), 
for some twenty cycles of iteration and it did not hang: the prompt was 
furnished. However, no Molecular Energy was furnished, only scf energy and 
it was clearly stated that convergence was not reached. Comparing scf energy, 
from input as bove for the two most stable conformers, resulted in a far too 
large energy difference between them (5 kcal/mol; absurd because I can see 
both them by NMR at r.t.).

I was unable to tell the story in fewer words. I do not expect anything easy 
for complex systems. Before putting the hands further on files I am trying to 
figure out a plan how to move.

Thanks for your kind attention.

francesco pietra
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Re: [SPAM] Re: XFS, EXT3 or some other?

2006-06-22 Thread Jaime Ochoa Malagón
Hi,

I really apreciate to know about how far de free software is working on
but I suposse this thread has changed from topic and goes beyond the
limit of out of Topic in this list...

I suggest Fracesco don't talk in terms of your expertise because Lennart is not a chemical...

You need to provide instruccion ans set of test to improve the software...

i.e. if mpqc is giving you good results a 32 bits and not a 64 then the problem is at hand...
or if you have the correct progression of results this could be fixed...
you need to expose the rules and not the chemestry...
Good luck.
On 6/22/06, Francesco Pietra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 22 June 2006 14:46, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 06:03:09AM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:  Out of SuSe - which I do not know - may I ask about debian etch (32 and  64): reiser3, reiser4, or even some other reiser#? Just because I took
  that, as reiserfs, for good (and I am long using it at 32bit without  problems; now also at 64bit). Presently my problems are not there; they  are about putting mpqc at work with difficult molecules: so far -
  despite my initial enthusiasm - it has failed badly. So what kind of problems is mpqc giving you?I know nothing about quantum chemistry, but I am pretty good at fixing software. :)
Hi Lennart:This is a most welcome invitation.Below is pasted a message that I addressed this morning(8.38 UTC) to thempqc community. As such, it could only trigger response from experts in mpqc.However, to let you investigating the matter, I could send you files of
successful and unsuccessful computations. The version of mpqc is just the onecurrently on debian etch amd64.I don't know if it is a problem of software. It may well be that I am puttingmpqc to work the wrong way. In particular, I do not undestand whether the
flexibility of the molecule poses problems to the software, stopping it undercertain conditions. I do not know how exactly mpcq works, the manual isdetailed as to commands but I have not found a description of how it works.
Perhaps, to understand fully, one should look at the source. But, as anobject oriented program, it must be a hard way. I must also add that what Iam trying to do is putting quantum calculation on the very hard way; I wonder
whether other dare so. Not evident from the publications. The problems I aminvestigating are rather for molecular mechanics, and I do so. But molecularmechanics tells nothing about most properties of the molecule, except the
shape and relative energies of conformers.What will never finish to surprise me is that tout le monde - or about so -does such computations with a commercial software, released (at a very highprice) for commercial Linux under the understanding that installation of
Linux must be that of the CD, no variations. Sic. It surprises me because Ican not figure how users can understand what they are doing with suchinmperscrutable packages. At any event, these computations end on the most
respectable chemical journals.Tell me what you want.cheersfrancesco__Although this may well be a premature ask for help, it might result insuggesting me a general approach.
mpqc 2.3.0 runs correctly (amd64 debian etch, parallel mode with four nodes,dual opteron) for simple molecules, B3LYP simple input, as given in themanual with water.in. For example, the energy difference between the two ax
and eq conformers of methylcyclohexane (input from molecular-mechanicsminimized structures) is evaluated 1.8 kcal/mol, in accordance with theexperimental value. In both cases the calculation reached convergence
extremely rapidly and the energy was furnished as Molecular Energy.With molecules of the size C22H25NO6 involving benzene ring, unsaturatedconjugated ring and helicity problems, so far I was unable to reach
convergence. Either one of the two most stable conformers used for input withthe water template (basis set 3-21G* or higher) with coordinates furnished asdescribed above for the methylcyclohexanes, was not brought to conclusion. In
most instances the calculation hangs after a few cycles of iterations and theprompt is not furnished; I can examine from the *.out file each moleculefor each iteration set and found it correct, with all atoms - including
hydrogens - where they should be. Also, the general conformation was not muchchanged, except for minor details.In another instance the above calculations went farther (about four hours),for some twenty cycles of iteration and it did not hang: the prompt was
furnished. However, no Molecular Energy was furnished, only scf energy andit was clearly stated that convergence was not reached. Comparing scf energy,from input as bove for the two most stable conformers, resulted in a far too
large energy difference between them (5 kcal/mol; absurd because I can seeboth them by NMR at r.t.).I was unable to tell the story in fewer words. I do not expect anything easyfor complex systems. Before putting the hands further on files I am 

Re: [SPAM] Re: XFS, EXT3 or some other?

2006-06-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 02:23:22PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
 Hi Lennart:
 This is a most welcome invitation.
 
 Below is pasted a message that I addressed this morning  (8.38 UTC) to the 
 mpqc community. As such, it could only trigger response from experts in mpqc. 
 However, to let you investigating the matter, I could send you files of 
 successful and unsuccessful computations. The version of mpqc is just the one 
 currently on debian etch amd64.
 
 I don't know if it is a problem of software. It may well be that I am putting 
 mpqc to work the wrong way. In particular, I do not undestand whether the 
 flexibility of the molecule poses problems to the software, stopping it under 
 certain conditions. I do not know how exactly mpcq works, the manual is 
 detailed as to commands but I have not found a description of how it works. 
 Perhaps, to understand fully, one should look at the source. But, as an 
 object oriented program, it must be a hard way. I must also add that what I 
 am trying to do is putting quantum calculation on the very hard way; I wonder 
 whether other dare so. Not evident from the publications. The problems I am 
 investigating are rather for molecular mechanics, and I do so. But molecular 
 mechanics tells nothing about most properties of the molecule, except the 
 shape and relative energies of conformers.
 
 What will never finish to surprise me is that tout le monde - or about so - 
 does such computations with a commercial software, released (at a very high 
 price) for commercial Linux under the understanding that installation of 
 Linux must be that of the CD, no variations. Sic. It surprises me because I 
 can not figure how users can understand what they are doing with such 
 inmperscrutable packages. At any event, these computations end on the most 
 respectable chemical journals.
 
 Tell me what you want.
 
 cheers
 francesco
 __
 Although this may well be a premature ask for help, it might result in 
 suggesting me a general approach.
 
 mpqc 2.3.0 runs correctly (amd64 debian etch, parallel mode with four nodes, 
 dual opteron) for simple molecules, B3LYP simple input, as given in the 
 manual with water.in. For example, the energy difference between the two ax 
 and eq conformers of methylcyclohexane (input from molecular-mechanics 
 minimized structures) is evaluated 1.8 kcal/mol, in accordance with the 
 experimental value. In both cases the calculation reached convergence 
 extremely rapidly and the energy was furnished as Molecular Energy.
 
 With molecules of the size C22H25NO6 involving benzene ring, unsaturated 
 conjugated ring and helicity problems, so far I was unable to reach 
 convergence. Either one of the two most stable conformers used for input with 
 the water template (basis set 3-21G* or higher) with coordinates furnished as 
 described above for the methylcyclohexanes, was not brought to conclusion. In 
 most instances the calculation hangs after a few cycles of iterations and the 
 prompt is not furnished; I can examine from the *.out file each ?molecule 
 for each iteration set and found it correct, with all atoms - including 
 hydrogens - where they should be. Also, the general conformation was not much 
 changed, except for minor details. 
 
 In another instance the above calculations went farther (about four hours), 
 for some twenty cycles of iteration and it did not hang: the prompt was 
 furnished. However, no Molecular Energy was furnished, only scf energy and 
 it was clearly stated that convergence was not reached. Comparing scf energy, 
 from input as bove for the two most stable conformers, resulted in a far too 
 large energy difference between them (5 kcal/mol; absurd because I can see 
 both them by NMR at r.t.).
 
 I was unable to tell the story in fewer words. I do not expect anything easy 
 for complex systems. Before putting the hands further on files I am trying to 
 figure out a plan how to move.
 
 Thanks for your kind attention.

Well there is a version 2.3.1 which is supposed to contain some bug
fixes.  I wonder if there is any chance that one of the fixed bugs is
what is causing your problem.

The mpqc changelog has this:
 2006-03-22: MPQC-2.3.1
 * MCSearch added for cubic interpolation during quasi-Newton line searches.
 * Added KMLYP method.
 * Updated libtool to version 1.5.22.
 * SumDenFunctional returns correct HF exchange coefficient when
   using nested ACM functionals. This could change the results from
   certain, uncommon inputs.
 * Other minor bug fixes, enhancements, and
 * documentation improvements. 

Debian doesn't have 2.3.1 built yet, but it wouldn't be hard to do.  I
can try and build a debian package of 2.3.1 if you want to try that.

Len Sorensen


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Re: [SPAM] Re: XFS, EXT3 or some other?

2006-06-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 01:52:20PM -0800, Fielder George Dowding wrote:
 Thank you, Tom, for the comparison. I have used ext3 but became
 disenchanted when I found it liked to do an old ext2 fsck on boot every
 so often according to some magic number. I tried both xfs and jfs
 without much joy. At the time (perhaps two years ago now) grub would not
 boot with xfs as the boot partition file format. I learned that I could
 use reiserfs as the boot partition file format if I made the partition
 sufficiently large, which is not a problem with today's hard drives. I
 can't remember why jfs gave little joy. These days I use reiserfs with
 much joy. I don't understand the problem that others are having with it.
 My systems are lightly loaded workstations and servers. I do not use any
 data base systems. That is going to change as soon as I can figure out
 how to use MySQL and PostgreSQL.

The time between fsck's is not magic in ext3.  it is right in the
information you get from tune2fs, and adjustable with the same tool
(including turning them off entirely).

As for reiserfs, well I have been burned by its design in the past, and
don't trust it anymore.  I recently read that apparently they now
support ordered writes, which would probably elliminate the cause of the
data loss I had from it.  Certainly ext3 uses ordered writes by default,
and I haven't lost data to it yet.  I still think any FS that doesn't
have a reliable safe recovery tool isn't worth using.  So reiserfs is
out for me.

Len Sorensen


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Re: [SPAM] Re: XFS, EXT3 or some other?

2006-06-21 Thread Francesco Pietra
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 14:53, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
 On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 01:52:20PM -0800, Fielder George Dowding wrote:
  Thank you, Tom, for the comparison. I have used ext3 but became
  disenchanted when I found it liked to do an old ext2 fsck on boot every
  so often according to some magic number. I tried both xfs and jfs
  without much joy. At the time (perhaps two years ago now) grub would not
  boot with xfs as the boot partition file format. I learned that I could
  use reiserfs as the boot partition file format if I made the partition
  sufficiently large, which is not a problem with today's hard drives. I
  can't remember why jfs gave little joy. These days I use reiserfs with
  much joy. I don't understand the problem that others are having with it.
  My systems are lightly loaded workstations and servers. I do not use any
  data base systems. That is going to change as soon as I can figure out
  how to use MySQL and PostgreSQL.

 The time between fsck's is not magic in ext3.  it is right in the
 information you get from tune2fs, and adjustable with the same tool
 (including turning them off entirely).

 As for reiserfs, well I have been burned by its design in the past, and
 don't trust it anymore.  I recently read that apparently they now
 support ordered writes, which would probably elliminate the cause of the
 data loss I had from it.  Certainly ext3 uses ordered writes by default,
 and I haven't lost data to it yet.  I still think any FS that doesn't
 have a reliable safe recovery tool isn't worth using.  So reiserfs is
 out for me.

Sad to read about that, after having reiserfs as filesystem on all my 
partitions (except precious data - my papers and my database - that I 
extra-save on a 25 years old external scsi HD as vfat). I understand that 
going back means doing everything, except partitions, ex novo. Now that I 
have even set up the measurement of temperatures. Is tout le monde convinced?

cheers
francesco

 Len Sorensen


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Re: [SPAM] Re: XFS, EXT3 or some other?

2006-06-21 Thread Giacomo Mulas

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Lennart Sorensen wrote:


Of course it is quite likely reiserfs has gotten more stable in the
couple of years since I stopped using it.  I just don't think it has any
features that make me interested in trying it again.  Liek really, what
features does reiserfs have that I could possibly want that ext3 doesn't
have?


Well, in Francesco's case, since he apparently already set up everything
with reiserfs, you should ask the opposite question: what does ext3 offer
that he doesn't have with the _current_ version of reiserfs? I haven't got
such a huge experience, but I had a few hardware failures on disks with
reiserfs, relatively recently, and the recovery tools performed quite well:
I only lost those data which had something to do with the damaged blocks,
all the rest was salvaged. So, in my personal book, the overwhelmingly large
majority of data losses were invariably due to hardware failures, and I did
not see any correlation between data losses and using reiserfs vs. ext3. My
recent personal statistics count ~10 broken hard disks over many computers
in the past 2 years. My only personal gripe with reiserfs is that it takes a
long time to mount large filesystems, but I do not mount/umount big
filesystems so frequently. If I were in Francesco's shoes, unless I had
other reasons for redoing everything, I would keep the working filesystem, be
it reiserfs or ext3, and start using his new system for quantum chemistry,
which I understand is what he wants to get to...

Just my 2¢...

Giacomo

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Re: [SPAM] Re: XFS, EXT3 or some other?

2006-06-21 Thread Francesco Pietra
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 16:19, Giacomo Mulas wrote:
 On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
  Of course it is quite likely reiserfs has gotten more stable in the
  couple of years since I stopped using it.  I just don't think it has any
  features that make me interested in trying it again.  Liek really, what
  features does reiserfs have that I could possibly want that ext3 doesn't
  have?

 Well, in Francesco's case, since he apparently already set up everything
 with reiserfs, you should ask the opposite question: what does ext3 offer
 that he doesn't have with the _current_ version of reiserfs? I haven't got
 such a huge experience, but I had a few hardware failures on disks with
 reiserfs, relatively recently, and the recovery tools performed quite well:
 I only lost those data which had something to do with the damaged blocks,
 all the rest was salvaged. So, in my personal book, the overwhelmingly
 large majority of data losses were invariably due to hardware failures, and
 I did not see any correlation between data losses and using reiserfs vs.
 ext3. My recent personal statistics count ~10 broken hard disks over many
 computers in the past 2 years. My only personal gripe with reiserfs is that
 it takes a long time to mount large filesystems, but I do not mount/umount
 big filesystems so frequently. If I were in Francesco's shoes, unless I had
 other reasons for redoing everything, I would keep the working filesystem,
 be it reiserfs or ext3, and start using his new system for quantum
 chemistry, which I understand is what he wants to get to...

I did that in the last couple of days. With mpqc set for the four nodes, a 
large molecule at BFT with a 485 base set, was done in four hours vs 1 month 
with my previous non-parallel computing package. Not bad.

francesco

 Just my 2¢...

 Giacomo

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Re: [SPAM] Re: XFS, EXT3 or some other?

2006-06-21 Thread Tom Vier
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 01:52:20PM -0800, Fielder George Dowding wrote:
 Thank you, Tom, for the comparison. I have used ext3 but became
 disenchanted when I found it liked to do an old ext2 fsck on boot every
 so often according to some magic number. I tried both xfs and jfs

tune2fs lets you change that. There's two values, one for maximum mount
count (and current mount count), and the max time between fsck.

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Re: [SPAM] Re: XFS, EXT3 or some other?

2006-06-21 Thread Tom Vier
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 04:19:11PM +0200, Giacomo Mulas wrote:
 in the past 2 years. My only personal gripe with reiserfs is that it takes a
 long time to mount large filesystems, but I do not mount/umount big
 filesystems so frequently. If I were in Francesco's shoes, unless I had

It loads all the bitmaps on mount. There's a patch to load them on demand
(like other fs'es do), but it hasn't been extensively tested. Search the
reiserfs list and you should find it. I haven't tried it. reiser4 has a
dont_load_bitmaps mount option (which personally, i think should be the
default - it's always been that way for other fs'es).

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Re: [SPAM] Re: XFS, EXT3 or some other?

2006-06-21 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 09:58:47AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
 
 Of course it is quite likely reiserfs has gotten more stable in the
 couple of years since I stopped using it.

According to what I read here and there. reiserfs3 stabilized after Hans
Reiser had abandoned it and Chris Mason from SuSE took over
maintainership. AFAIR it was Chris Mason who implemented ordered mode
for reiser3, and it was Hans Reiser who opposed Chris' work saying it
would keep people using reiser3 instead of testing/developing reiser4
(AFAIK at that time reiser4 was not even near being usable).

So right now reiser3 should be stable and is backed by a big distro
(SuSE), while reiser4 is still far from being integrated into the
vanilla kernel and thus should be treated with some care. On the other
hand reiser4 has some really new concepts so if someone likes to
experiment, reiser4 is a good opportunity.

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Re: [SPAM] Re: XFS, EXT3 or some other?

2006-06-20 Thread Fielder George Dowding
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Tom Vier wrote:
 This is the second fs thread lately, but all add my thoughts here, too. 8)
 
 reiserfs:
 I've used for years and only had one minor problem (fsck thought
 there was a hash problem when there wasn't). I've used it on x86, amd64,
 sparc64, alpha, and ppc32.
 
 + dynamic inodes
 + has data=ordered
 + supports write barriers
 + much faster than ext3
 - slower than xfs and jfs in some cases
 
 
 ext3:
 I've used on x86, amd64, sparc64, and ppc32. No problems, but reiserfs was
 stable before ext3 was!
 
 + compatability
 + has data=ordered
 + write barriers
 + data=journalled (rarely useful, tho)
 - slow!
 - fixed inode tables (tho, that makes fsck more reliable)
 
 
 jfs:
 I've only tried on x86.
 
 + dynamic inodes
 + nointegrity option speeds up restoring from backup
 + lower cpu usage
 - high latency than xfs
 - doesn't support write barriers
 - no order constraints
 
 xfs:
 Only tried on x86.
 
 + dynamic inodes
 + delayed allocation
 + write barriers
 + lower latency than jfs
 - no order constraints
 - high cpu usage
 
 
Thank you, Tom, for the comparison. I have used ext3 but became
disenchanted when I found it liked to do an old ext2 fsck on boot every
so often according to some magic number. I tried both xfs and jfs
without much joy. At the time (perhaps two years ago now) grub would not
boot with xfs as the boot partition file format. I learned that I could
use reiserfs as the boot partition file format if I made the partition
sufficiently large, which is not a problem with today's hard drives. I
can't remember why jfs gave little joy. These days I use reiserfs with
much joy. I don't understand the problem that others are having with it.
My systems are lightly loaded workstations and servers. I do not use any
data base systems. That is going to change as soon as I can figure out
how to use MySQL and PostgreSQL.

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dba Iceworm Enterprises, Anchorage, Alaska   /v\   etch Testing
Since 1976 - Over 30 Years of Service.  /( )\  User Number 269482
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