JFS in Ubuntu

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Sat Oct 18 14:54:55 UTC 2008


Rashkae wrote:

> The simple truth is, JFS just doesn't have the exposure of wide
> deployment, and therefore, gotchas can go several kernel versions
> unnoticed.  

While that may be true (and all filesystems have their pros & cons) JFS has
the advantage of coming out of IBM, giving it considerably more resources
than, say, ReiserFS.  Having the weight of IBM developers behind it gives
me a lot more faith than, well, Reiser.

> And I'm very skeptical of the claim by the article writer 
> that he noticed such a performance improvement.  

Yeah, me too.
-- 
derek





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