[geeks] Whoo hoo... now this is a nice Linux

Mike Meredith mike at blackhairy.demon.co.uk
Wed Mar 12 11:37:52 CST 2003


On Wednesday 12 March 2003 4:35 pm, Koyote wrote:
> vance at neurotica.com writes:
> > On 11 Mar 2003, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > > Err, this -is- linux we're talking about here, right?  There are
> > > several failure modes where ext2 CANNOT be recovered by fsck. 

I believe you are more likely to run into a failure mode that no 
filesystem has come up with an answer for ... a disk failure. Because 
of the ways the numbers have tumbled for me, I've seen more instances 
of UFS (Solaris) losing data than ext2.

> >
> > Can't you just use IBM JFS on Linux now anyway?
>
> I usually use JFS or XFS, but I haven't ever had my /boot run on it.
> Not sure if one can do that with gentoo yet.

It's Grub more than Gentoo, and I don't believe you can ... /boot has to 
be readable by Grub which I doubt is going to start reading 
JFS/XFS/ReiserFS anytime soon.


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