In article <200502252126.j1PLQme27546@toad.rmkhome.com>,
Rick Kelly  <rmk@rmkhome.com> wrote:
>Michael said:
>
>>If Linux jfs is anywhere near its AIX cousin if should be perfect for 
>>the job. On AIX you have to tell it if you want big ( >2GB ) files when 
>>creating the filesystem though.
>
>Assuming that it is the same codebase, Supposedly the OS/2 jfs codebase is now
>in AIX and Linux. There are some commands missing from the Linux jfs suite.
>
>I have seen a jfs filesystem become absolutely useless garbage after a crash
>while a heavy compile was going on.

And I had a 1T filesystem run fsck for 12 hours only to end up completely
useless (~everything ended up in lost+found). That was not even after a
crash. I shut the system down cleanly and forced an fsck after some
worrysome kernel messages from jfs.

christos