John R Pierce wrote: > Timo Schoeler wrote: > >> For enterprise environments my favorite FS is XFS, YMMV, though. >> >> > > I've always avoided XFS because A) it wsan't supported natively in RHEL > anyways, and B) I've heard far too many stories about catastrophic loss > problems and day long FSCK sessions after power failures [1] or what > have you > Fixed with the introduction of barriers for stuff that use fsync (therefore xfs on a partition, not lvm since dm does not support barriers) but then one probably uses hw raid with big bbu caches for xfs.... > is B) no longer an issue? > > I wanna know how come JFS/JFS2 (originally from IBM) isn't more popular > in the linux world? At least as implemented in AIX, its rock stable, > journaling, excellent performance, and handles both huge files and lots > of tiny files without blinking. jfs2 handles really huge file systems, > too. I really like how, in AIX, the VM and FS tools are coordinated, so > expanding and reorganizing file systems is trivial, nearly as simple as > Sun's ZFS. > yeah, love jfs. Using that in Ubuntu land.