Re: yaboot and jfs

2006-07-21 Thread Roger Leigh
Mike Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > ... >> I currently use grub on the x86 and am very happy with it. Does Grub 2 >> work on PPC? Previously it hasn't; I'm not sure what the difference is >> between them (other than where their configs go). >> Doug. > > It worked

Re: yaboot and jfs

2006-07-19 Thread Mike Small
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... > I currently use grub on the x86 and am very happy with it. Does Grub 2 > work on PPC? Previously it hasn't; I'm not sure what the difference is > between them (other than where their configs go). > Doug. It worked on my G4 PowerMac last time I tried it. One of th

Re: yaboot and jfs

2006-07-19 Thread dtutty
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 06:22:50PM -0400, Mike Small wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > power goes back out during ext2/3 check/boot. In short, I like JFS. > > The yaboot docs say that the partition its conf points to can be ext2/3, > > XFS, or ReiserFS. >

Re: yaboot and jfs

2006-07-19 Thread Mike Small
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On my x86 computers, I've been using JFS for all my partitions: we're in > the country, power can go out. The comparisions showed that JFS uses > less processor power than ReiserFS and XFS. I've had failures if the > power goes back out du

Re: yaboot and jfs

2006-07-19 Thread Johannes Berg
On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 16:22 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The yaboot docs say that the partition its conf points to can be ext2/3, > XFS, or ReiserFS. As a workaround, you could just use a small ext2 /boot partition containing the kernel and all that. johannes signature.asc Description:

yaboot and jfs

2006-07-19 Thread dtutty
On my x86 computers, I've been using JFS for all my partitions: we're in the country, power can go out. The comparisions showed that JFS uses less processor power than ReiserFS and XFS. I've had failures if the power goes back out during ext2/3 check/boot. In short, I like JFS.

Re: jfs

2001-08-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 03:54:54PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > yaboot can boot kernel on ext2, hfs and reiserfs (with patch), other > filesystems aren't supported as of now. yaboot 1.2.3 merged the reiserfs patches, but keep in mind that its the same reiserfs code that is in grub and grub i

Re: jfs

2001-08-24 Thread Tom Rini
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 03:47:28PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > yaboot only supports ext2, 1.2.3 allegedly supports reiser. And, iirc, this should also make it easier to add in support for other filesystems as well. Not that I've looked at it recently.. -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashi

Re: jfs

2001-08-24 Thread Ethan Benson
; > > is too much for the potato boot kernel), I've gotten past all the minor > > > roadblocks. I searched through the mailing list archives for powerpc > > > information on journaling file systems. I'd like to use jfs on all of my > > > linux partitions bu

Re: jfs

2001-08-24 Thread Ethan Benson
; > > is too much for the potato boot kernel), I've gotten past all the minor > > > roadblocks. I searched through the mailing list archives for powerpc > > > information on journaling file systems. I'd like to use jfs on all of my > > > linux partitions bu

Re: jfs

2001-08-24 Thread Colin Walters
James Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you test run xfs and found it to work (boot properly) ? Seems > to me that if xfs works, jfs should, or conceivably could. You definitely need an ext2 /boot. I keep mine mounted read-only, to avoid the need for fsck.

Re: jfs

2001-08-24 Thread James Moss
> You wouldn't happen to be putting the kernel on a jfs partition ? > > yaboot can boot kernel on ext2, hfs and reiserfs (with patch), other > filesystems aren't supported as of now. > > Check the sources if you wish to add support for other filesystems That is in

Re: jfs

2001-08-24 Thread Bastien Nocera
minor roadblocks. I searched through the mailing list archives for powerpc information on journaling file systems. I'd like to use jfs on all of my linux partitions but haven't succeeded in my brief attempt. Might have done something slightly wrong, and I'm definitely open to any

Re: jfs

2001-08-24 Thread Bastien Nocera
thomas graichen wrote: James Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I haven't noticed that it's all that bad so far, and for personal reasons I HATE SGI. Well, I don't like Ethan and I use ybin /me runs but aside from that xfs is a really nice filesystem working well on ppc too with all the t

Re: jfs

2001-08-24 Thread thomas graichen
James Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't noticed that it's all that bad so far, and for personal reasons I > HATE SGI. but aside from that xfs is a really nice filesystem working well on ppc too with all the tools working (dump/restore, debugger etc.) ... i think you should have a look at

Re: jfs

2001-08-24 Thread James Moss
n past all the minor > > roadblocks. I searched through the mailing list archives for powerpc > > information on journaling file systems. I'd like to use jfs on all of my > > linux partitions but haven't succeeded in my brief attempt. Might have done > > something slightly wro

Re: jfs

2001-08-24 Thread James Moss
n past all the minor > > roadblocks. I searched through the mailing list archives for powerpc > > information on journaling file systems. I'd like to use jfs on all of my > > linux partitions but haven't succeeded in my brief attempt. Might have done > > something slightly wro

Re: jfs

2001-08-24 Thread Ethan Benson
> information on journaling file systems. I'd like to use jfs on all of my > linux partitions but haven't succeeded in my brief attempt. Might have done > something slightly wrong, and I'm definitely open to any "you're a moron, go > read this " etc. Thank

jfs

2001-08-23 Thread James Moss
While toying around on getting potato to finally boot (seems my 1GB of RAM is too much for the potato boot kernel), I've gotten past all the minor roadblocks. I searched through the mailing list archives for powerpc information on journaling file systems. I'd like to use jfs on all o

Re: JFS compile?

2001-06-28 Thread Andrew Sharp
van Haaren wrote: > > Anyone try compiling IBM's JFS 1.0? The README says it's been run on > PowerPC (be kind of a shock if it hadn't). > > <http://www10.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/cvs/jfs/linux-2.2.12/README?rev=1.38&content-type=text> > &g

JFS compile?

2001-06-28 Thread Kevin van Haaren
Anyone try compiling IBM's JFS 1.0? The README says it's been run on PowerPC (be kind of a shock if it hadn't). <http://www10.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/cvs/jfs/linux-2.2.12/README?rev=1.38&content-type=text> How's it compare against Reiser? Kevin

JFS for PowerPC Linux

2000-06-04 Thread Tom Gall
Hi All, I had some time this past week to try this out. JFS is the Journalled File System technology from IBM that we've open sourced. This is the same as what AIX has. (Minus the logical volume manager) It's still in a "pre-alpha" state but you can create the file sy