Re: automated filesystem testing for multiple Linux fs

Michael Clark
2004-12-17T02:23:25Z

Steve French wrote:

> Michael Clark wrote:
>
>> Steve French wrote:
>>
>>> ... Since
>>> at present only XFS and JFS have the full combination of server
>>> features: better quotas, DMAPI, xattr support, ACL support and
>>> nanosecond file timestamps on disk
>>>
>>
>> Does JFS have quota support now?
>>
>> Last I looked it was still on the To Do list.
>>
>> ~mc
>>
> I remember them adding it four months ago or so. Looking at
> http://linux.bkbits.net/linux-2.5
> it seems to be mostly in changeset 1.1803.133.1

Oh, that's good news. This was one reason you couldn't really consider
using JFS on a /home fileserver (which sort of implies quotas). It
perhaps it needs a lot of testing as it's quite new. Any experiences?
(ie. survives a highly parallel load from a lot of threads with
different uids).

~mc