Subject: Re: JFS
To: john heasley <heas@shrubbery.net>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/19/2003 20:42:48
> > by looking at their patch, jfsutils is already quite portable.
> > I'm afraid it'll be a long time before we see anyone actually
> > using JFS under any BSD. But yes, it would be nice to have yet
> > another filesystem option.
> >
> > //joelw
>
> i don't know anything about JFS, but resisefs found in linux would
> be an interesting feature.

have you used it for a long time?

i did. and moved to ext2 as fast as possible.

it's

1) buggy
2) buggy
3) buggy
4) doesn't have really working recovery tools
5) assumes things like I/O errors never happen. any disk I/O error
means kernel panic.