Alex Samad wrote:
| Hi
|
| I remember reading in the list that JFS was a dying FS, because IBM
| wasn't maintaining it full time. And that it might disappear from the
| kernel soon.
|
| Any one still using it. I was actually thinking of using it for my /tmp
| directory
|
| Alex
Hi Alex,
I use JFS, and have been quite satisfied with its performance, and reliability.
~ On the subject of dead file systems, if they're going to remove JFS from the
kernel because IBM is no longer supporting it, then they'd better also remove
the reiserfs, as well. It is also totally unmaintained. [Google 'reiserfs' or
'hans reiser' - without the quotes, and you'll see why it is unlikely that it
will be supported again - his site is down, as well].
Anyhow, JFS hasn't given me any problems, and at one time I used it for
everything except for my /boot partition.
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04-16-2008, 03:07 AM
Alex Samad
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:49:44PM -0400, Chris Walters wrote:
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> Alex Samad wrote:
> | Hi
[snip]
> Hi Alex,
>
> I use JFS, and have been quite satisfied with its performance, and reliability.
> ~ On the subject of dead file systems, if they're going to remove JFS from the
> kernel because IBM is no longer supporting it, then they'd better also remove
> the reiserfs, as well. It is also totally unmaintained. [Google 'reiserfs' or
> 'hans reiser' - without the quotes, and you'll see why it is unlikely that it
> will be supported again - his site is down, as well].
>
> Anyhow, JFS hasn't given me any problems, and at one time I used it for
> everything except for my /boot partition.
yes i have read about hans, also read bad things about reiserfs. also
read bad things about xfs but i have a ups sho that should be okay.
most of the followup googling I did on jfs seems to give the impression
that jfs is not that fast a fs on lots of small files.
>
> Regards,
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04-16-2008, 04:16 AM
Hose
JFS / Unsupported file systems
On Apr 15, 2008, at 8:49 PM, Chris Walters wrote:
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Alex Samad wrote:
| Hi
|
| I remember reading in the list that JFS was a dying FS, because IBM
| wasn't maintaining it full time. And that it might disappear from
the
| kernel soon.
|
| Any one still using it. I was actually thinking of using it for
my /tmp
| directory
|
| Alex
Hi Alex,
I use JFS, and have been quite satisfied with its performance, and
reliability.
~ On the subject of dead file systems, if they're going to remove
JFS from the
kernel because IBM is no longer supporting it, then they'd better
also remove
the reiserfs, as well. It is also totally unmaintained. [Google
'reiserfs' or
'hans reiser' - without the quotes, and you'll see why it is
unlikely that it
will be supported again - his site is down, as well].
Anyhow, JFS hasn't given me any problems, and at one time I used it
for
everything except for my /boot partition.
Regards,
Chris
I have to agree - I've been using a combo of reiser and jfs for the
past 5 years as different parts of production systems, and I find both
to be fairly reliable, and much less annoying to use than ext{2,3}.
Unfortunately I'm not sure where to go from here on out for the
future, as JFS *does* seem to be on a dead-end path, and reiser4 isnt
even close to being standard (then again, even finding a JFS supported
live cd can sometimes be a hassle). I have a severe dislike for ext,
though I haven't looked much at 4. Anyone have suggestions? ZFS
looks interesting, but I've heard mixed things of it in practice.
hose
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04-16-2008, 04:21 AM
Chris Walters
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Alex Samad wrote:
| On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:49:44PM -0400, Chris Walters wrote:
|> Alex Samad wrote:
|> | Hi
| [snip]
<snip squared>
|> Anyhow, JFS hasn't given me any problems, and at one time I used it for
|> everything except for my /boot partition.
| yes i have read about hans, also read bad things about reiserfs. also
| read bad things about xfs but i have a ups sho that should be okay.
|
| most of the followup googling I did on jfs seems to give the impression
| that jfs is not that fast a fs on lots of small files.
Hi Alex,
Well, every file system has its good points and its flaws. Reiser set out to
create the "perfect" file system, and ReiserFS performs admirably on lots of
small files - better than any of the others. Its main flaw is that version 3
is prone to FS corruption, and version 4 is not complete (you can run it, with
a kernel patch, but it is not everything that it was promised to be).
JFS, in my experience performs equally well with all sizes of files, with the
drawback that, with time, it will slow down (probably due to file system
fragmentation). I find that doing a full backup, running 'mkfs.jfs' on the
partition, and restoring the data fixes that problem.
XFS. I've used it and, believe it or not, I found it not really much faster
than the EXT3 file system. Then there is the problem that it uses extensive
buffering to achieve this "speed boost", which I never saw - basically meaning
that you must have a UPS or you *will* lose data.
EXT3. Of course we all know the benefits and flaws of this one, and its
predecessor. I thought I would bring it up because it is the 'tried and true'
file system of Linux based systems.
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04-16-2008, 06:39 AM
Chris Walters
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Hose wrote:
| On Apr 15, 2008, at 8:49 PM, Chris Walters wrote:
<snip>
|> I use JFS, and have been quite satisfied with its performance, and
|> reliability.
|> ~ On the subject of dead file systems, if they're going to remove JFS
|> from the
|> kernel because IBM is no longer supporting it, then they'd better also
|> remove
|> the reiserfs, as well. It is also totally unmaintained. [Google
|> 'reiserfs' or
|> 'hans reiser' - without the quotes, and you'll see why it is unlikely
|> that it
|> will be supported again - his site is down, as well].
|>
|> Anyhow, JFS hasn't given me any problems, and at one time I used it for
|> everything except for my /boot partition.
<snip>
|
| I have to agree - I've been using a combo of reiser and jfs for the past
| 5 years as different parts of production systems, and I find both to be
| fairly reliable, and much less annoying to use than ext{2,3}.
| Unfortunately I'm not sure where to go from here on out for the future,
| as JFS *does* seem to be on a dead-end path, and reiser4 isnt even close
| to being standard (then again, even finding a JFS supported live cd can
| sometimes be a hassle). I have a severe dislike for ext, though I
| haven't looked much at 4. Anyone have suggestions? ZFS looks
| interesting, but I've heard mixed things of it in practice.
|
| hose
Hello,
Actually, you usually don't need a LiveCD with support for JFS. You can use a
tool called RIPLinuX (the RIP stands for "Recovery is Possible"). It comes in
the form of a bootable ISO that can be used to do many things. The latest
version is 4.5 - I have not looked at it yet, but it seemed to support JFS,
XFS, Reiserfs 3/4, the EXT 2/3 file systems, and some others, I think. The
link is here.
As for ext4dev, I tried it, and I wouldn't bother with it, just yet. To enable
it, you must have it enabled in your kernel. Then using the utils is a tricky
proposition - you have to download an older version of e2fsprogs with a patch
and compile the patched version to use any of the utilities on it (e.g. fsck).
It really wasn't all that great, on the performance end, either. I'd rather
wait until they either stabilize it, or someone picks up Reiser4fs and decides
to work on it.
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04-28-2008, 11:17 PM
"Douglas A. Tutty"
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:16:12PM -0500, Hose wrote:
> On Apr 15, 2008, at 8:49 PM, Chris Walters wrote:
> I have to agree - I've been using a combo of reiser and jfs for the
> past 5 years as different parts of production systems, and I find both
> to be fairly reliable, and much less annoying to use than ext{2,3}.
> Unfortunately I'm not sure where to go from here on out for the
> future, as JFS *does* seem to be on a dead-end path, and reiser4 isnt
> even close to being standard (then again, even finding a JFS supported
> live cd can sometimes be a hassle). I have a severe dislike for ext,
> though I haven't looked much at 4. Anyone have suggestions? ZFS
> looks interesting, but I've heard mixed things of it in practice.
FreeBSD has had ffs2 for a while and OpenBSD is just bringing it into
the main there (I guess they figure its secure enough now) which solves
their fs>1TB limitation. Can Linux rw ffs2?
Doug.
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04-28-2008, 11:25 PM
"Damon L. Chesser"
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Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:16:12PM -0500, Hose wrote:
On Apr 15, 2008, at 8:49 PM, Chris Walters wrote:
I have to agree - I've been using a combo of reiser and jfs for the
past 5 years as different parts of production systems, and I find both
to be fairly reliable, and much less annoying to use than ext{2,3}.
Unfortunately I'm not sure where to go from here on out for the
future, as JFS *does* seem to be on a dead-end path, and reiser4 isnt
even close to being standard (then again, even finding a JFS supported
live cd can sometimes be a hassle). I have a severe dislike for ext,
though I haven't looked much at 4. Anyone have suggestions? ZFS
looks interesting, but I've heard mixed things of it in practice.
FreeBSD has had ffs2 for a while and OpenBSD is just bringing it into
the main there (I guess they figure its secure enough now) which solves
their fs>1TB limitation. Can Linux rw ffs2?
Doug.
What is annoying about ext3? Not looking for a religious debate, or
which is better then the other, just asking/
"and much less annoying to use than ext{2,3}". I find the fs to be
transparent for day to day use. What annoyance? What horror have I missed?
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04-29-2008, 12:22 AM
Alex Samad
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On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 07:17:56PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:16:12PM -0500, Hose wrote:
> > On Apr 15, 2008, at 8:49 PM, Chris Walters wrote:
>
> > I have to agree - I've been using a combo of reiser and jfs for the
> > past 5 years as different parts of production systems, and I find both
> > to be fairly reliable, and much less annoying to use than ext{2,3}.
> > Unfortunately I'm not sure where to go from here on out for the
> > future, as JFS *does* seem to be on a dead-end path, and reiser4 isnt
> > even close to being standard (then again, even finding a JFS supported
> > live cd can sometimes be a hassle). I have a severe dislike for ext,
> > though I haven't looked much at 4. Anyone have suggestions? ZFS
> > looks interesting, but I've heard mixed things of it in practice.
>
> FreeBSD has had ffs2 for a while and OpenBSD is just bringing it into
> the main there (I guess they figure its secure enough now) which solves
> their fs>1TB limitation. Can Linux rw ffs2?
some reason that xfs is not being talked about?
>
> Doug.
>
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04-29-2008, 02:52 AM
Ron Johnson
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On 04/28/08 19:22, Alex Samad wrote:
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> some reason that xfs is not being talked about?
We hate it because Dr. Evil uses it.
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