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BSD Journaled File System Ready For Testing

Posted by timothy on from the dear-diary dept.

Dan writes "The Journaled File System for FreeBSD (JFS4BSD) Project has the goal of porting the JFS Technology from IBM/Linux to FreeBSD. It uses a log-based, byte-level file system that was developed for transaction-oriented, high performance systems. Scalable and robust, its advantage over non-journaled file systems is its quick restart capability: JFS can restore a file system to a consistent state in a matter of seconds or minutes. The jfsutils is under a compilable state on FreeBSD."

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  1. {IBM,GNU}/Linux by palfrey · · Score: 0, Redundant

    IBM/Linux? New one on me... GNU/Linux, yes, but not IBM. I don't use the "GNU/" phrase myself, but it's got good reasons. IBM haven't donated *that* much to Linux (not compared to GNU foundation)

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  2. ReiserFS by DiSKiLLeR · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Whats wrong with ReiserFS (my favourite) or EXT3? or SGI's XFS even? Strangely, i've never even heard of IBM's JFS before, as ReiserFS/EXT3/XFS make all the news here.

    D.

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