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J. Scott Kasten wrote: |
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> The file system chosen for my box is IBM's JFS. In work life, I've been |
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> doing embedded stuff with JFS for a couple years now. I first tried it |
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> with gentoo and mips under kernel 2.13 about a year and a half ago. And |
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> under 2.17.10-mips, it is still proving to be solid and exceptionally |
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> well performing as I've emerged about 500 packages in the last couple |
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> weeks - no crashes, no oops, no data corruption, rock solid. I know |
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> people on non-intel are skeptical of it, but I've been warming up to it |
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> a lot and have never seen issues, but I've had issues with reiser that |
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> made it unacceptable. There's a lot in terms of performance and |
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> features to recommend this file system - assuming stability of course. |
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> :) It's definately worthy of consideration when setting up a new |
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> non-intel box. |
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I wouldn't say we're skeptical, just that no one wanted to run it long enough to |
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validate it at a working FS under non-x86 architectures. JFS is the one I've |
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not really messed with too much, so I always held a neutral point of view. |
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RiserFS3 ate half my x86 filesystem once, but I think we all have been down that |
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road. XFS I tried once on x86 under 2.6.1, and it liked to oops quite a bit. |
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Plus the slow deletion time was always a nuisance. Thus, I stuck with ext3. |
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Come to think of it, actually, I did try JFS once on mips, but I believe there |
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was a compile bug in the driver when I did, so I just moved on. Can't recall. |
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But, tis good to know someone have tested it so extensively. Maybe in the next |
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documentation pass, we'll have to mark it as viable. |
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--Kumba |
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Gentoo/MIPS Team Lead |
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"Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands |
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do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." --Elrond |
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