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 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".
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. -- CS
