[GLLUG] JFS and Mac OS X

[Matt Graham]

On Wednesday 16 October 2002 20:57, after a long battle with technology, 
Mike Reed wrote:
> Has anyone here done any work with a JFS?  I've read-up on the
> subject and I'd love to hear anecdotes from actual usage experiences.
>  Good, bad, ugly, summary impressions, etc.

I've been using a combination of ReiserFS and ext3 on my desktop, and 
ext3 on my laptop, for over a year now.  The only problems I had were 
due to the kernels between 2.3.99 and 2.4.4 not dealing with VIA686 
chipsets properly.  Other than that, I've had 5 or 6 unintended 
shutdowns for various reasons and never had data loss.

Can't speak for OS X since I don't have any hardware that's capable of 
running it, but IMHO there's no reason not to use a journaling 
filesystem on your Linux machines.

Another performance tip for Linux machines:  Mount your filesystems with 
the "noatime" option.  Most of the time, you don't need atime; you're 
interested in mtime if you're interested in file times.  If you're not 
updating atime, you cut down the number of disk writes by about 5%, 
which can be significant on heavily-accessed filesystems.

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