Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> How useful will JFS's on home machine. On my machine, 1.5GB Linux
> partition takes 1.5 minutes usually and I am happy with that. Any other
> subtle differences/advantages?
There are certain subtle disadvantages when you have PC at home without
a UPS.
Wish me to name those.. ? There is one BIG subtle advantage. Everytime,
EVERY TIME, there was postgres running on my machine and the power was
inturrupted,
I had to reinstall POSTGRESQL on my machine. You may be running a
database or anything
where not the sources/buildable binaries are the most important poart,
but some application
which is BIG in terms of dependencies and open files etc.
Then you will realise why JFS is required. Right now I am waiting for
Binand to re-burn
the first CD of SuSE 6.3 for the JFS support so that I can have a
trouble free FS
AND not buy a UPS.
JFS may not boot your system faster when it is not in trouble but let
someone pull the
plug when image-processing is going on your front end and postgres is
writing a table
with 1000s of record at the back end, and you will know that ext2 takes
full 5 min to
just examine the drive before dropping you to an interactive fsck where
it is NOT
guaranteed that the FS will come up. _THIS_ is where RFS will come in.
Or ext3.
I hope someone comes up with this soon.
Rohit
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