Originally posted by lilelvis2000
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zFS runs under Unix System Services on z/OS and is basically the replacement for HFS however I think its a different zfs. I've nearly always used ext3 but am slowly moving to ext4 on Linux and seen no problems yet. Used reiserfs once and it screwed up my whole system.“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.” -
best stay away from reiserfs - not only is it designed for small files - it doesn't really journal properly so you're toast if the system crashes. Plus the creator is now serving a sentence for murder so its now officially dead. (the project and his victim).Originally posted by darmstadt View PostMcCoy: "Medical men are trained in logic."
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The murder bit puts me off too. But I used it circa 2000 and it nicely got around the ext3 problem of running fsck every n boots. I was dual booting with Windows in those days so reboots were unavoidable and with the speed of 1999 hardware it was a very real interruption to the workflow.Originally posted by lilelvis2000 View Post
I tried Solaris yesterday and managed to avoid the dual boot problems of the past by altering the boot device priority in the BIOS. No sound though, so I tried again with Linux Mint and that produced no sound either. A new sound card is maybe on the cards (pardon the pun), but I need to do a bit of digging first.
It appears that jfs2 and xfs are supported on Linux nowadays.
On another note, I ended up working too late on this last night and somehow knacked the Windows setup. Into recovery mode this afternoon and Windows Repair cheerfully wiped out my Ultimate installation. I thought I'd seen this behaviour when I was mucking around with dual boot stuff several months ago but couldn't prove it. Another nail in the MS coffin here; you simply don't need to get into this type of hassle on a non-Windows system.
This is where being paranoid about testing backups to make sure they really work pays off, of course.
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A bit of light reading from IBM: Anatomy of Linux journaling file systems, with plenty of references.Originally posted by stek View PostBehold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.Comment
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Just been reading up on Btrfs (butter FS) and it is essentially zfs from Oracle with a GPL licence. I should be incorporated into the newer distro soon. However it will be beta for sometime. Probably couldn't use it until 2012.McCoy: "Medical men are trained in logic."
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Yep, I'm looking forward to that.Originally posted by lilelvis2000 View Post
Thread update:
- Neither ext4 nor xfs provide atomic file renames (and apparently this has caused the Mozilla developers some headaches).
- I am running jfs on a backup disk. The problem here is that on a boot I sometimes have to do a repair before the system can see the disk.
- Currently using ext3 on top of LVM. Using data=ordered rather than writeback, going to try the journalled option this weekend.
Linus Torvalds Upset over Ext3 and Ext4- Linux Magazine OnlineBehold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.Comment
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ext3 is what i am using on most my stuff now
zfs had promise and i even deployed it for a few clients over the last few years, though that was for solaris boxes. but given oracles utter shambles of it's handling with some of sun's cool tech, i have written it off
btrfs is the upcoming favorite, and the theodore tso' architect of ext3 and 4 has said that ext4 is just a stopgap and btrfs is the way forward.Politicians are wonderfull people, as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, like working for a living!Comment
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