From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Zucchi Subject: Re: jfs, jfsutils? Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 10:19:26 +1030 Message-ID: <9dd69cac-a54c-ca61-0e8a-440a87aab099@gmail.com> References: <882e8091-aaa7-0705-306d-d4bf2824e050@gmail.com> <0c2ba522-31a4-c423-bceb-ccd59ae03042@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45474) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ifBjY-00054i-T9 for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Dec 2019 18:49:34 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ifBjX-0004bn-Uh for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Dec 2019 18:49:32 -0500 Received: from mail-pf1-x42b.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::42b]:41277) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ifBjX-0004Z1-O3 for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Dec 2019 18:49:31 -0500 Received: by mail-pf1-x42b.google.com with SMTP id s18so101959pfd.8 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2019 15:49:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?IPv6:2001:44b8:203:1200:be5f:f4ff:fef7:7bdc? (2001-44b8-0203-1200-be5f-f4ff-fef7-7bdc.static.ipv6.internode.on.net. [2001:44b8:203:1200:be5f:f4ff:fef7:7bdc]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id u5sm4195147pfm.115.2019.12.11.15.49.28 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 11 Dec 2019 15:49:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <0c2ba522-31a4-c423-bceb-ccd59ae03042@gmail.com> Content-Language: en-AU 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 It's an acronym of Journaled File System.  It was written by IBM and has been in Linux since 2002. On 12/12/19 9:08 am, Josh wrote: > Could you catch me up on what "jfs" is? > > On 12/11/19 5:31 PM, Michael Zucchi wrote: >> >> Morning, >> >> I just built a new computer and thought i'd give guix a go but after >> finally getting everything working to the install stage ... I hit a >> personal showstopper - no jfs support whatsoever. It's mostly an >> afterthought on every other distribution but this was a surprise. >> >> Any reason for this or is it just that nobody thought of it? >> >> Anyway, I just ended up installing slackware-current and have 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 as it >> was probably too much to learn at once but I currently have a lot of >> spare time to fill, so tried guix first. >> >> Regards, >>  Z >> > >