From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice Subject: Re: jfs, jfsutils? Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 00:57:54 +0100 Message-ID: <87y2viifel.fsf@nckx> References: <882e8091-aaa7-0705-306d-d4bf2824e050@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53413) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ifBrn-00061B-Fu for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Dec 2019 18:58:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ifBrm-0004e9-0h for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Dec 2019 18:58:02 -0500 Received: from tobias.gr ([2001:470:7405::1]:47514) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ifBrj-0004Tz-Gk for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Dec 2019 18:58:01 -0500 Received: by tobias.gr (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 6a3058f8 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2019 23:57:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by submission.tobias.gr (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id d8235dea (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO) for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2019 23:57:55 +0000 (UTC) In-reply-to: <882e8091-aaa7-0705-306d-d4bf2824e050@gmail.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: help-guix@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Michael, Michael Zucchi =E5=86=99=E9=81=93=EF=BC=9A > I just built a new computer and thought i'd give guix a go That's great to hear! Welcome. > but after > finally getting everything working to the install stage ... I=20 > hit a > personal showstopper - no jfs support whatsoever. It's mostly=20 > an > afterthought on every other distribution but this was a=20 > surprise. > > Any reason for this or is it just that nobody thought of it? s/thought/uses/ Nobody's going to add support for a file system they don't use,=20 and nobody boots Guix from JFS. =E2=80=A6yet. :-) > Anyway, I just ended up installing slackware-current and have=20 > then > installed guix atop that, to grab a few packages and to get more > familiar with it. I would probably have had to do that anyway=20 > as it > was probably too much to learn at once but I currently have a=20 > lot of > spare time to fill, so tried guix first. Spare time sucks, consider contributing JFS support to Guix=20 instead. Assuming it's a pretty conventional Linux file system: =2D Guix's Linux-Libre kernel already builds the module=20 (CONFIG_JFS_FS=3Dm) =2D it just needs to be added to the initramfs when booting from JFS =2D jfsutils needs to be packaged for Guix and a static fsck added=20 to the initramfs =2D some code must be added to (gnu build file-systems) to read JFS=20 labels & UUIDs: Guix does not use C tools to do this like other=20 distributions. If you're completely new to Guix that might sound daunting, but=20 it's honestly not that hard and you should get plenty of help on=20 the mailing list and/or on IRC. Kind regards, T G-R --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEfo+u0AlEeO9y5k0W2Imw8BjFSTwFAl3xgoIACgkQ2Imw8BjF STwoQg//WwjtX8SlqIqt02fn8fhqQYUXH1gpX3HJHlZDz/JfuRMjwu7O5hhflDPs rY5ygvYUG/4+VZ8sBA1WMRCZAGBGyY5Rj0dDc+bffg3OIV7bPNzPNFdOmsgGC1ga TwteS2YmepfjFMmZu8NVcghw3dWRQiatMkL95anTkKN9cF4YuJgVMFO1zTrXLvfR v/aIfyVC/CWeLHCU018GsP0N7m2gvrnSqCVNsoVdnDajG0AOBP2fG1uxeVh7VnzD wciwg5stmbV5hNgshPPd/1Lz+Z2P45os2B2bTD8nUUXtiQlEjAxey2UeHeBVjpAC SGV5lBQnFDAOfTxfOd03YmCf7At/FCijjuOSAjUGaaH9Akd5AcjOvG0y+QF2E4Wi jsCLwG3ObCfgxz5IxOf264IvS2fXbmQUVmaJkUrhQYTfPpZBuWkQfd7dqQDu1Heq U/Kb1OA8ctrAoBdPKmXcqpGnxY15ZmVYhojjq/aKT72xnKbP+o95Q2WDeWWZlm+t qI1woFv+9Zm4VXguiyZvWUPHU+Z7o1vp2+xKo3GPDf5UfOVq7Wjbtn8wpQEnxqF+ pBCB2V3lmCa/UynuMCqi1SB+w76HsmXSn3INjOTVBCoGUN4mjEh82MHLRe7tzpa9 7phbYslD1h7htZhUJNeSzAGPXnHKk/xV2P6QZTLCbGMyYAsPw7c= =rWmT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--