in my experience be it personal and professional i never really let somebody
else's opinion (benchmarks) influence my buying decisions. take linux when
i started everyone says go for slackware or redhat or mandrake or
blahblahblah. ask them why and they would cite you benchmarks, stories, the
past, the future and so on. what did i do?
i bought cds of slackware, redhat, mandrake, debian, caldera, storm linux,
suse linux and tried them all to see what suits me. during the course of my
adventures with these different distros i found out their strengths and
weaknesses. i found things which haven't been or will never be covered in
print or online reviews. i was satisfied and happy with the outcome. in
the end i went for debian for obvious reasons and never regretted it.
going back to the subject of filesystems, i tried reiserfs, xfs, and lately
jfs for the same reason i stated above. reiserfs was not yet in the main
kernel stream when i tried it so it was a bit of a pain to setup. the same
goes for xfs. back then xfs required that i use gcc version below 2.95.2
which is not acceptable since i have programs that require gcc 2.95.2 so i
shelved xfs. jfs i tried only a few months back and was actually surprised
at how easy it is to setup.
jfs supports the kernels 2.2.x and 2.4.x of course. i don't know about
reiserfs or xfs as i haven't checked their respective sites lately (about
2.2.x support). with jfs you only have to untar their file in
"/usr/src/linux", select jfs in the filesystem section, and recompile your
kernel. you also need to compile the included mkfs.jfs and fsck.jfs which
is in the "/usr/src/linux/options" directory. reboot and viola!
jfs-enabled kernel.
naiiyak na ba kayo? :-) anyway, back to you joe.
Rino
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