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Re: Filesystems (was My First Computer)



Glen <lpepicel@nycap.rr.com> writes:

>>AIX has had a "journaled file system" (JFS) for years, and I'd have to
>>assume they weren't the first.  It has recently been ported to OS/2.

>I know :)   
>I used to used to admin an AIX server... it did not crash
>once.  Z-e-r-o times.  And this thing was doing some real work too.
>IBM hates Microsoft so much that they actually wrote a JFS for linux. 
>So now you can get a JFS for free.

Or you can find someone getting rid of an AIX box and enjoy the wonders of
smit for free. I might be inheriting a few POWERservers soon. As an AIX
admin myself for just about six years, I've really gotten to enjoy it, IBM's
perverse little licensing quirks notwithstanding.

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