Hello, Does anyone have any opinions on JFS (Suse 10) for the file system that will run on a raid? I am experimenting with various file systems for performance testing. I also noticed that JFS is not one of the choices in Yast although I do see the JFS tools are installed. Many thanks, James
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, James D. Parra wrote:
Hello,
Does anyone have any opinions on JFS (Suse 10) for the file system that will run on a raid?
Running JFS on raid is not a problem.
I am experimenting with various file systems for performance testing. I also noticed that JFS is not one of the choices in Yast although I do see the JFS tools are installed.
JFS is not "officially" supported by SUSE, I'm told.
I haven't had problems with it personally but I still prefer ext3.
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Jon Nelson wrote:
JFS is not "officially" supported by SUSE, I'm told. I haven't had problems with it personally but I still prefer ext3.
YaST does not support creating JFS filesystems during installation, but other than that JFS is supported in the same way as other filesystems. (Although you'll have to move 10.1 to get boot-time support built-in). /Per Jessen, Zürich
James D. Parra wrote:
Does anyone have any opinions on JFS (Suse 10) for the file system that will run on a raid?
I use only JFS on miscellaneous system using both software RAID and hardware RAID adapters.
I am experimenting with various file systems for performance testing. I also noticed that JFS is not one of the choices in Yast although I do see the JFS tools are installed.
JFS is not supported by the partitioner/installer, but installing onto existing JFS file-systems works fine. /Per Jessen, Zürich
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:50:49 -0800, you wrote:
Hello,
Does anyone have any opinions on JFS (Suse 10) for the file system that will run on a raid?
I am experimenting with various file systems for performance testing. I also noticed that JFS is not one of the choices in Yast although I do see the JFS tools are installed.
Many thanks,
James
I've heard that they withdrew JFS from the distro because it wasn't as stable a Reiser, but I'm not sure I trust my source. From my experiences trying to use JFS on OS/2 I'd say you couldn't pay me enough to try it on linux. I have a few systems running on softraids and a few running LVMs with SuSE 9.3 and 10. Results seem to vary with Reiser - some people can't make it work, some can't make it work for more than 2 weeks (I fall in that category) and some people have no trouble with Reiser. Personally, the journaling file system I feel the best about is ext3, although if you're good about your backups and have a decent UPS there's a noticable speed improvement with XFS... but in my experience and as the readme warns you, it does cache aggressively - if you have an unanticipated shutdown you may was well just restore from backup and be done with it. [(2) 2.7 Tb LVMs on SuSE 9.3 in XFS, (2) 250Gb RAID 0's on SUSE 10 in ext3.] Mike- -- If you're not confused, you're not trying hard enough. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments,
Michael W Cocke wrote:
I've heard that they withdrew JFS from the distro because it wasn't as stable a Reiser, but I'm not sure I trust my source.
At some point during the SUSE 9.x line, a bug was discovered in JFS - unfortunately, Dave Kleikamps (the IBM author/maintainer) fix didn't make it in time for the SUSE deadline. Subsequently, SUSE product management decided that as "JFS wasn't really being used much anyway", testing and QAing the JFS install support was only taking up resources unnecessarily. Check the archives and you'll see it's been discussed a lot. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/ - managed anti-spam and anti-virus solution. Let us analyse your spam- and virus-threat - up to 2 months for free.
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