Re: d-i and alternative filesystems

2003-12-18 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:21:10PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > * Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-06 00:14]: > | Blah, JFS (as best I can determine) can't be resized, which makes it > | suboptimal for use with LVM (other than that I'm sure it's quite a lovely > | filesystem) > > wro

Re: d-i and alternative filesystems

2003-12-08 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 06:47:08PM -, Leigh Brown wrote: > There are two AIX JFS filesystems, JFS1 (the original JFS filesystem) > which is supported in all versions, and JFS2, which is supported in AIX 5 > and above. JFS1 has never supported online (nor offline) shrinking; > you have to delet

Re: d-i and alternative filesystems

2003-12-08 Thread Thorsten Sauter
* Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-08 19:02]: | On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:21:10PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote: | > wrong. jfs is online resizable: | | The AIX JFS is online growable and shrinkable, the Linux one one | growable. it isn't online shrinkable in AIX too. -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: d-i and alternative filesystems

2003-12-08 Thread Leigh Brown
Bastian Blank said: > On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:21:10PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote: >> wrong. jfs is online resizable: > > The AIX JFS is online growable and shrinkable, the Linux one one > growable. There are two AIX JFS filesystems, JFS1 (the original JFS filesystem) which is supported in all

Re: d-i and alternative filesystems

2003-12-08 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:21:10PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > wrong. jfs is online resizable: The AIX JFS is online growable and shrinkable, the Linux one one growable. Bastian -- Witch! Witch! They'll burn ya! -- Hag, "Tomorrow is Yesterday", stardate unknown signature

Re: d-i and alternative filesystems

2003-12-07 Thread Thorsten Sauter
* Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-06 00:14]: | Blah, JFS (as best I can determine) can't be resized, which makes it | suboptimal for use with LVM (other than that I'm sure it's quite a lovely | filesystem) wrong. jfs is online resizable: http://www10.software.ibm.com/developer/opensour

Re: d-i and alternative filesystems

2003-12-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 08:56:05AM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > * Sam Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-04 06:10]: > [...] > | What is the status of xfs, jfs and/or reiserfs support? I like the look > | of xfs and jfs in particular (especially jfs which should work with 2.4 > | and 2.6 kern

Re: d-i and alternative filesystems

2003-12-05 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 04:10:14PM +1100, Sam Johnston wrote: > Afternoon all, > > I was surprised that beta1 only gave me the option of ext2 and ext3 > filesystems, especially given how easy it appears to be to add > others: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2003/debian-boot-200307/msg0048

Re: d-i and alternative filesystems

2003-12-04 Thread Thorsten Sauter
Hi Sam, * Sam Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-04 06:10]: [...] | What is the status of xfs, jfs and/or reiserfs support? I like the look | of xfs and jfs in particular (especially jfs which should work with 2.4 | and 2.6 kernels alike, without patches). Well, xfs isn't part of the official

d-i and alternative filesystems

2003-12-04 Thread Sam Johnston
Afternoon all, I was surprised that beta1 only gave me the option of ext2 and ext3 filesystems, especially given how easy it appears to be to add others: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2003/debian-boot-200307/msg00483.html What is the status of xfs, jfs and/or reiserfs support? I like the l