Bug 77528 – JFS support in kernel, but no jfs utilties supplied

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Per Jessen 2005-01-11 08:08:41 UTC]

The kernel on 2004.2 has JFS support, but the livecd universal CD-image does not include any JFS-utilities (such as fsck.jfs and mkfs.jfs). 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-01-11 10:06:19 UTC]

What about 2004.3?

[Comment 2 Per Jessen 2005-01-11 10:22:23 UTC]

Apologies, I should have mentioned it - I tried (universal) 2004.3-r1, but had to revert to 2004.2 as it (apparently) wouldn't boot on my HP J280.  I was thinking of opening a bugreport on that too, but didn't quite get that far.  

[Comment 3 Guy Martin (RETIRED) 2005-01-11 13:10:56 UTC]

Last time we tried jfs it was really unstable and hang the box after a fex minutes. That's why it's not included.

I'll consider including it on the 2005.0 livecd.

[Comment 4 Per Jessen 2005-01-11 15:20:34 UTC]

This is the first time I'm trying to bring up hppa-linux, but I've been
using JFS for almost 2 years - since about 1.1.2 I think.
I'll look forward to 2005.0 - jfs is all we use here (on IA32).  

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2005-02-06 03:31:44 UTC]

just because jfs is stable on x86 doesnt mean it's stable on hppa ;)

[Comment 6 Per Jessen 2005-02-06 05:52:40 UTC]

Agree.  Are there any indications jfs is not stable on hppa?  

[Comment 7 Guy Martin (RETIRED) 2005-05-12 09:25:40 UTC]

There is a new livecd here :
http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/experimental/hppa/livecd/

Can you try it. This one should work.

Thanks

[Comment 8 Per Jessen 2005-07-18 09:33:01 UTC]

Sorry about the late feedback - yep, looks good.  Thanks.

[Comment 9 Guy Martin (RETIRED) 2005-07-23 09:27:49 UTC]

closing