Does F8 support JFS out of the box?

Anthony Messina amessina at messinet.com
Sat Dec 22 21:08:03 UTC 2007


On Saturday 22 December 2007 03:03:42 pm Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Schlaegel writes:
> > I am considering a move from FC6 to F8. I use JFS for one of my
> > partitions that needs fast multi-gig deletes (ext3 is far too slow at
> > multi-gig deletes).
> >
> > I checked Distrowatch to see the differences between FC6 and F8, and
> > it states that starting with F8, Fedora no longer supports JFS.
> >
> > Does F8 support JFS out of the box?
>
> If it does not, I wonder what happened here:
>
> [mrsam at lazarus ~]$ rpm -q fedora-release
> fedora-release-8-5
> [mrsam at lazarus ~]$ mount | grep video
> /dev/sdb1 on /video type jfs (rw)

you just need jfs-utils

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