[geeks] Whoo hoo... now this is a nice Linux

[Koyote]

vance at neurotica.com writes:

> On 11 Mar 2003, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 
> > [snip]
> > > I also don't see a reason to make it journaling; a 100 meg partition
> > > (or 20 :)  ) is fscked quickly and the journal log only takes up
> > > space.
> > >
> > > Have fun with gentoo :-)
> >
> > Err, this -is- linux we're talking about here, right?  There are several
> > failure modes where ext2 CANNOT be recovered by fsck.  ext3 has a
> > limited journal mode of some sort, which allows fsck to actually recover
> > data, which is what most folks use.
> 
> Can't you just use IBM JFS on Linux now anyway?
> 

I usually use JFS or XFS, but I haven't ever had my /boot run on it. Not
sure if one can do that with gentoo yet.

I believe jessica has a mandrake install that boots directly from
JFS. have to check.