On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 09:45:42PM +0800 or thereabouts, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 at 15:39, Jimmy wrote:
> > Question, is it safe to have 2 or more filesystems in one linux box
> > e.g. ext2,reiserfs, and xfs in one box?
>
> Sure! I, in particular, run that trio very stably. ext2 for /boot,
> ReiserFS for /var/spool/squid, XFS for everythign else. I do believe
> MandrakeCooker has a kernel package with JFS and ext3 in, too. Wow!
> Hahaha. :)
>
> Note: XFS may or may not coexist nicely with ext3 and/or JFS because
> neither of them (nor XFS) are in the mainstream kernel. The SGI XFS team
> does their best to maintain 100% compatibility with the rest of the
> mainstream kernel, though. Since ext2 and ReiserFS are there, you
> shouldn't have problems most of the time. :)
>
to quote the xfs faq:
Q: Can I use JFS and XFS together?
Yes, this should work without to much trouble. Someone already has
patches for making these two work together.
I'm running such a setup for several months already. This only works,
because Steve Best added a little tweak upon my request to get this
going because XFS modifies some type declaration that JFS depends on.
I'm maintaining patches with XFS plus JFS on my ftp server:
ftp://ftp.uni-duisburg.de:/Linux/filesys/
or see here
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/mail_archive/0107/msg00025.html
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