[plug] JFS pros, cons?

[Craig Foster]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Denis Brown [mailto:dsbrown at cyllene.uwa.edu.au] 
> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 9:15 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] JFS pros, cons?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> 
> > What? You don't rsync to a warm standby host over gigabit? :-)
> 
> Would love to if I could find a generous benefactor :-)  In 
> fact in the
> long term I hope to have a couple of these boxes at separate 
> sites and I
> was thinking to link them using CODA.  Rsync sounds like a 
> better idea.
> But that is In The Future (tm)
> 
<snip>
Hint Cheap gigabit cards _can_ be found, and a crossover cable still
works!
> 
> One of my tasks for this server is to support databases and web-based
> calendar and resource services so in the main I'm probably looking at
> large-ish files from few directories.   Being able to manage 
> the ext3 fs
> with ext2 tools is probably an advantage for me, not that 
> I've had to use
> ext2 tools in anger many times -- touch wood.   Also it seems 
> that ext3
> offers data as well as metadata journalling, but I have yet 
> to read more
> on Reiser; it may well do, too.
> 

Many third party tools allow recovery of ext2/ext3 data (either free or
commercial). A lot of tools are proven on ext2 and ext3 is just an
extension.

<snip> 
> Cheers and thanks to all for replies so far.   I'm going to spend some
> time in the literature but the way things are looking atm, 
> ext3 has the
> edge.
> 
> Denis

Some of the Appliance distributions have come to the same conclusion
(for the moment) including e-smith / SME Server


Regards,

Craig Foster
fostware at iinet.net.au (with SMIME) 
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