On 2/13/20 14:50, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 01:57:49PM -0700, Tom Dial wrote:
>> XFS is excellent, and so also is JFS.
>
> Yes on XFS, no on JFS. (XFS is very actively developed; JFS is moribund,
> has no really compelling benefits over other filesytems, and gets much
> less testing due to very low adoption. I don't personally recommend JFS
> for any new deployment.)
Recanted as to JFS and new installations. I overlooked that the last
update (to jfsutils) was nearly 9 years ago, and it appears JFS was
functionally stable almost from its arrival ca 2001. For a file system,
that's not a bad thing, but 9 years without a bug to fix in something
that complex is worrisome. I'm not in a hurry to switch, but wouldn't
(haven't) put it on a new image since about 2008. It does go on and on,
though.
>
> As to the original question, if you're happy with XFS there's no problem
> sticking with it. There's also no reason not to go with the easy default
> and use EXT4, especially in a single-disk situation.
Regards,
Tom Dial
