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[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Not wishing to reopen old flames and wounds, but in the last 2 days I
> have had problems with ext3. On this 11.0 Alpha2 box I have
> /dev/sdb1 as / (JFS) 500G SATA
> /dev/sdb2 /boot (reiserfs)
> /dev/sda1 /ftp  (ext3)  320G SATA
> Suddenly there was a system freeze that needed a hard reset and when
> booting, after the grub selection, a black screen appeared. I had to
> boot from 11.0 Alpha2 CD and run fsck. The ext3 partition was the one
> with the problem and it took ages to get through. The fsck for the
> reiserfs  and JFS were all clean.
>
> Last night on a box belonging to a relative on which I did a fresh
> 10.3 install to a new HD /dev/sda1 (160G PATA ext3), with the old 10.0
> HD as /dev/sdb2 (80G PATA reiserfs), I inadvertently pulled the wrong
> plug and powered the box off. The ext3 drive drive took over an hour
> to fix, the reiserfs drive took minutes, complaining of 3 errors,
> quickly fixed with --fix-fixable.
>
> Is there any chance we could have JFS as an install choice for 11.0?

Isn't JFS available in 10.3 - just with a big warning that it's
untested?

Andreas
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