From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E17F51381F3 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:27:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 435D5E084A; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:27:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com [71.74.56.122]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5075E084A for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:27:29 +0000 (UTC) X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=KtrPKBqN c=1 sm=0 a=z24K/L0qm29fGQ1mPCDDQQ==:17 a=oFojtMtyxSwA:10 a=nzesPlDgKGEA:10 a=TE4uMHUzy4gA:10 a=05ChyHeVI94A:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=ayC55rCoAAAA:8 a=KGjhK52YXX0A:10 a=nfQKF3U9dhgA:10 a=NirwS5JuGgwp8xVxaKIA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=z24K/L0qm29fGQ1mPCDDQQ==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Authenticated-User: X-Originating-IP: 24.242.96.89 Received: from [24.242.96.89] ([24.242.96.89:1093] helo=[192.168.233.68]) by hrndva-oedge04.mail.rr.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.3.46 r()) with ESMTP id 7F/81-09005-1F119B15; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:27:29 +0000 Message-ID: <51B91206.6060303@gt.rr.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:27:50 -0500 From: Don Wilburn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] Alpha boot CD has no jfs tools References: <518D5DCD.5080602@gt.rr.com> <518D6422.2050506@spamcop.net> <518D750C.2060004@gt.rr.com> <1368226517.12026.12.camel@n-its-7of9.mcis.washington.edu> <518DA70B.1030409@gt.rr.com> <518DCFCD.5020008@spamcop.net> <518EA5F6.4090600@gt.rr.com> <518EFEC6.1040301@spamcop.net> <5192EB61.1030900@gt.rr.com> <519E6A25.7010204@gt.rr.com> <519E708C.40102@spamcop.net> <519E8A5C.1090907@gt.rr.com> <519FB889.8050905@spamcop.net> <1369426603.18163.11.camel@n-its-7of9.mcis.washington.edu> <519FD40E.3000604@gt.rr.com> <519FD471.7070505@spamcop.net> <519FE9D8.3020001@spamcop.net> <51A2E03C.6080106@gt.rr.com> <51A55C47.6030608@gt.rr.com> <51A5884B.1090006@spamcop.net> <51B10E30.2010600@gt.rr.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5829b43f-ebdb-4f3c-aa5d-ea07fcef4191 X-Archives-Hash: 627d958377aefae6390474347c078396 On 6/12/2013 1:43 AM, Matt Turner wrote: > Some particular reason you want to use JFS? My two regular old computers have a partition with Slackware installed, one from 2005 and the other 2006. Both are JFS and have not been killed by power outages or hard resets. I see JFS as "reliable," more so than EXT3. Once I figured out that aboot didn't care my root partition was JFS, I was happy. The BSD disklabel has enough slices to squander one for a boot partition. I don't think JFS wins any particular performance category, but I think it's regarded as good all around. I'll put a couple subjective reasons at the end. > Probably best to file a bug to ask for jfstools to be included. Can you point me in the direction of where to file such a bug report? I figured the alpha developer list is really small and whoever makes the alpha install CD image would be on this mailing list. I'll download the latest install image and check first. If jfs is still lacking, I'll try reporting a bug. Subjective reasons: JFS came from IBM. They probably had some quality people developing JFS for IBM products. Hans Reiser is a convicted murderer. I don't want ReiserFS on my computer. I had a small amount of stock in SGI. They went bankrupt and cost me money. So, by association, I hate SGI->Irix->XFS. Who needs XFS? The Gentoo alpha install CD has utils for ReiserFS and XFS. Seems strange to neglect JFS. Thanks for the reply. Adios, DW