On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 14:50, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > 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 OS/2 version was apparently a second version, a rewrite of the AIX one. The Linux port was of the OS/2 version. > > 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". I personally suspect the reason why it failed on me several times was that it was not supposed to be used in conjunction with other file systems. > > 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. I would rate reiserfs as the best file system I've used, and ext3 as the second best. One thing it's useful to know is that they work well together. Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
