Thanks for the tip. Good to know given I am usnig gentoo. At the moment I have gone with ReiserFS, but i'm not at a point where I cannot backout and change my mind.
BTW, if anybody knows, is the NTFS linux driver very slow ? It is taking hours and hours to copy about 50GB of data. I knew it would take a while, but this is ridiculous. Jason On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 21:03:01 +1000, Lindsay Holmwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:13:37 +1000 > Felix Sheldon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I read about JFS when SCO was claiming ownership of it. If I was going > > to go to all the trouble of stealing it from SCO I thought I may as well > > have a look at it. =) > > > > I have stuck with it after some initial playing around, and it's been > > really reliable. Mainly, I like the fact that it hasn't eaten any of my > > files (big or small). > > On that note, I remember having a number of fairly major problems with it > earlier this year when I was running Gentoo on my desktop. Basically Gentoo > would crash and burn quite badly on bootup if you hadn't powered down properly, > and most of the time it would take a bit of the data on the disk with it. > > So a warning to anyone who wants to use JFS on Gentoo - it might be more trouble > than it's worth. (But they may have fixed the problems since I used it). > > Lindsay > > -- > http://www.asymmetrics.net/~auxesis/ > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
