On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 08:03:42AM -0500, Derrik Pates wrote: > Jens Schmalzing wrote: > >If you are loooking for an alternative journalling filesystems, you > >may want to give xfs a try. I've used it on my powerbooks for quite > >some time now. It's probably never mentioned in installation reports > >because until recently, it required a patched kernel source tree. > > I'm using IBM's JFS on my Powerbook Pismo, and IMO it seems to handle > system load much better than it did with ext3. I also use it on a > PowerMac 7500 system I have Linux on. It's been very stable, and works > exceedingly well. I've also heard horror stories like what Ben was > talking about re: reiserfs (even on x86), so I haven't used it. The only > unfortunate thing is that I haven't seen a Debian install disc that > includes JFS utilities. I had to use FireWire target disk mode with my > x86 system, back up, repartition, and restore, but I'm quite pleased > with the results.
Notice that debian-installer's kernel .udeb seem to include a JFS .udeb, so it would just be a matter to adding proper JFS support in partman, or something such. Friendly, Sven Luther
