Comments on: Ixnay on the XFS http://heliologue.com/2006/08/14/ixnay-on-the-xfs/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:33:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ben http://heliologue.com/2006/08/14/ixnay-on-the-xfs/#comment-28210 Ben Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:02:15 +0000 http://heliologue.com/blog/2006/08/14/ixnay-on-the-xfs/#comment-28210 <p class="alert">Experimental JFS support at install time is <a href="http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-announce/2006-09/msg00000.html" rel="nofollow">active</a> as of openSUSE 10.2 alpha 4</p> Experimental JFS support at install time is active as of openSUSE 10.2 alpha 4

]]> By: Ben http://heliologue.com/2006/08/14/ixnay-on-the-xfs/#comment-27019 Ben Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:03:25 +0000 http://heliologue.com/blog/2006/08/14/ixnay-on-the-xfs/#comment-27019 I discovered this from a mailing list, which explains 10.0, but I'm not sure why it still didn't make 10.1 <blockquote cite="http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2005-08/msg00561.html"> >The problem is triggered by the /etc/init.d/earlykdm script. It runs >the preload command against a list of files that includes directories, >and the directories caused jfs to get confused, and think there was file >corruption. > >Workaround is to disable the earlykdm script, or at least the lines that >run preload. He included a patch in this posting - see the jfs mailing list for details. He also says he missed the cut-off for 9.3 - the updates are clearly ready for 10.0, but I think someone already confirmed that 10.0 will not have the JFS installation support either. Pity. </blockquote> I discovered this from a mailing list, which explains 10.0, but I’m not sure why it still didn’t make 10.1

>The problem is triggered by the /etc/init.d/earlykdm script. It runs
>the preload command against a list of files that includes directories,
>and the directories caused jfs to get confused, and think there was file
>corruption.
>
>Workaround is to disable the earlykdm script, or at least the lines that
>run preload.

He included a patch in this posting – see the jfs mailing list for details.

He also says he missed the cut-off for 9.3 – the updates are clearly ready for 10.0, but I
think someone already confirmed that 10.0 will not have the JFS installation support
either. Pity.

]]> By: Anonymous http://heliologue.com/2006/08/14/ixnay-on-the-xfs/#comment-27013 Anonymous Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:22:06 +0000 http://heliologue.com/blog/2006/08/14/ixnay-on-the-xfs/#comment-27013 Does anyone know why SUSE removed support for JFS in 10.0 and 10.1 of their distribution? Does anyone know why SUSE removed support for JFS in 10.0 and 10.1 of their distribution?

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