Re: Alpha boot CD has no jfs tools

On 6/12/2013 1:43 AM, Matt Turner wrote:
> Some particular reason you want to use JFS?
My two regular old computers have a partition with Slackware installed, 
one from 2005 and the other 2006.  Both are JFS and have not been killed 
by power outages or hard resets.  I see JFS as "reliable," more so than 
EXT3.  Once I figured out that aboot didn't care my root partition was 
JFS, I was happy.  The BSD disklabel has enough slices to squander one 
for a boot partition.
I don't think JFS wins any particular performance category, but I think 
it's regarded as good all around.  I'll put a couple subjective reasons 
at the end.

 > Probably best to file a bug to ask for jfstools to be included.
Can you point me in the direction of where to file such a bug report?

I figured the alpha developer list is really small and whoever makes the 
alpha install CD image would be on this mailing list.  I'll download the 
latest install image and check first.  If jfs is still lacking, I'll try 
reporting a bug.

Subjective reasons:
JFS came from IBM.  They probably had some quality people developing JFS 
for IBM products.
Hans Reiser is a convicted murderer.  I don't want ReiserFS on my 
computer.
I had a small amount of stock in SGI.  They went bankrupt and cost me 
money.  So, by association, I hate SGI->Irix->XFS. Who needs XFS?
The Gentoo alpha install CD has utils for ReiserFS and XFS.  Seems 
strange to neglect JFS.
Thanks for the reply.

Adios,  DW