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On Tue, 14 May 2002 19:07:20 +0200
Alexander Gretencord <arutha@gmx.de> wrote:

> 
> There are problems with those too. As said earlier (and Mark mentions
> it too) ext2 sucks :) I have no personal experience with JFS but the
> german computer magazine c't tested reiser, ext3, XFS and JFS lately
> and they had very serious stability problems with JFS. So it's
> basically ext3 against XFS. One is a very intrusive patch and the
> other is ext2 + journaling which is fine if you only need a journaling
> fs and don't care about other deficiencies of ext2.
> 
For a while (1.0.1-1.0.5 or so) I was testing and packaging JFS for
redhat-derived systems, and it was snappy and nice, but the fsck tools
needed some serious work.. and although it worked nicely in most cases
(had some issues with rejects and all that crap) when the system well
crapped up and fscked, It worked... until the last time..... then things
didn't work. at all :p  I lost directory contents on my /home (no biiig
loss since I had backups) and was generally fed up with the small (500
Meg) /home partition, so JFS died on my system then..

since that time its come further and I'm actually inclined on testing it
again, though Id need more harddrive space for that... (hint hint ;)

What I liked about JFS contra XFS was that it wasn't as intrusive as XFS
.. it was a "nice" patch that touched fewer files and modified less of
the kernel behaviour.


//Spider

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