Re: [Jfs-discussion] All JFS on home box - excellent...

[Paul L. <pl...@au...>]

On Saturday 30 June 2001 13:40, Derrik Pates wrote:
> I've been working on converting my home box to JFS, since the 1.0 patch
> was released. It's working pretty well, and I even managed to build a
> Debian package out of GRUB with Sergei Tzukanov's v0.5 patch to GRUB to
> support the JFS filesystem. Also, I don't know if this is noted in the
> JFS-as-root-FS documentation (if there is any), but you should remove your
Yep, see:  
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/jfs/project/pub/jfsroot.html
...or just click on the link from the jfs website.

> /etc/mtab, and make it a symlink to /proc/mounts. Otherwise, fsck.jfs will
> read /etc/mtab, and since it doesn't get updated when the root FS gets
> remounted read-only, it thinks the root FS may be read-write, which it
> doesn't think much of. It'll then prompt you on every boot if you're sure
> you want to check a mounted FS. Just thought I'd mention that for the
> benefit of anyone who was thinking about trying JFS out as their primary
> FS.
Thanks for the tip.  I tried it this morning and it seems to work Nicely.  
I'll add it to the howto.

> Also, if anyone wants to snag it, the GRUB package for Debian that I built
> can be had from
> http://dsdk12.net/~dpates/grub_0.5.96.1.cvs20010530-6_i386.deb. Don't know
> if lilo will work with JFS as root or not.
JFS works great with LILO, and you don't even need a special patch for it!

Thanks,
Paul Larson