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,