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Re: XFS vs. JFS

To: "Bernhard R. Erdmann" <be@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: XFS vs. JFS
From: Simon Matter <simon.matter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 08:25:28 +0200
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"Bernhard R. Erdmann" schrieb:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> how do you think about IBM's JFS for Linux version 1.0 released last
> friday?
> http://oss.software.ibm.com/jfs/
> 
> Is it or can it be a competitor for XFS?
> 
> The papers mention JFS only journaling metadata, not the data itself.
> Does XFS also journal the data?

At least JFS will give you another choice. That's a good thing. But for
me it's not a choice because JFS lacks some features I like with XFS.
To mention two of them:
- RH-based Installer
- Run's on Linux SoftRAID

Simon



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