On Mon, 3 Sep 2001 at 19:40, Rino Mardo wrote:
> reiserfs was not yet in the main kernel stream when i tried it so it
> was a bit of a pain to setup.
I was using ReiserFS back then, too, and this was with the 2.2.x kernels.
My main issue before: I didn't like the wait until the patches got out.
But ReiserFS was (and still is) fast, and I loved it over ext2. Plus of
course: no fsck waits.
> 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.
XFS will work with 2.95.3 I think, and supposed with gcc-3.0, too. gcc
2.96 is a big no-no, though. For the XFS team and for me personally. Why?
Because of <http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html> among others. And that's not
just taking it from someone else. That's taking it from the authors
themselves! If anyone's an expert on gcc, it's them. :)
> 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).
ReiserFS works with both 2.2.x and 2.4.x, but a filesystem created using
v2 (3.6, 2.4.x) won't work with 2.2.x because of LFS support.
XFS will only work with 2.4.x for a number of internal reasons, and
actually a lot of its contents are "2.5" material. This is good in some
ways, but not good in others. Hopefully 2.6 will level the playing ground
in this area and make clearer what each filesystem is good for.
> with jfs you only have to untar their file in "/usr/src/linux", select
> jfs in the filesystem section, and recompile your kernel.
It works with _any_ kernel version? Or by "untar their file" do you mean
get their copy of the JFS-enabled Linux kernel sources then compile that?
If it's the latter then it's the same case with XFS. You _can_ get the
patch, but you can also download (via FTP, rsync, CVS, or CVSup) their
entire tree, including the support programs.
> 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.
In XFS the support applications (for ACLs, EA/ACL-capable dump/restore,
DMAPI, test suite) are in /usr/src/linux-2.4-xfs/cmd/ and among others
come with the Debian scripts to automagically build packages. :)
> naiiyak na ba kayo? :-) anyway, back to you joe.
Uhh ... actually no. Hehehe. Kidding. ;>
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