Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3100 mails)

[Michael W Cocke <cocke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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-
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