JFS driver?

[silverpig]

I have a computer which had ubuntu linux on it. My storage drive is a 250 GB SATA drive formatted with JFS. It worked great under linux. I have now converted the computer over to a hackintosh, but MacOS doesn't natively read JFS. Is there a JFS driver for OSX somewhere? I tried googling but haven't had much luck.

 

[sourceninja]

You can probably find a JFS driver for FUSE and install macFUSE

 

[Tegeril]

Not to derail, but... why did you use JFS in the first place?

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: Tegeril
Not to derail, but... why did you use JFS in the first place?

1. ReiserFS sucks. It's the only file system I've used where I've had a corruption that was completely unrecoverable. The entire partition was just gone.
2. ext3 is dog slow at some things (partition creation/formatting) and I wanted to try something else.
3. XFS is good, but at the time I formatted this drive several years ago I had just had some file corruption with XFS due to a power outage.
4. That left JFS. This drive has survived everything I've thrown at it. Power outages, a few "bleeding edge" stupidly compiled gentoo systems etc. I've since stuck JFS on every drive I've formatted since and haven't had a problem.

 

[sourceninja]

ext3 with proper tweaking can handle almost every single end user case (read desktop) and most small to medium server use cases. I really wouldn't use anything else given a choice. If I get time though I'll try to find a jfs FUSE driver.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: sourceninja
ext3 with proper tweaking can handle almost every single end user case (read desktop) and most small to medium server use cases. I really wouldn't use anything else given a choice. If I get time though I'll try to find a jfs FUSE driver.

Thanks, although don't worry about it. I stuck the drive in my myth computer and am copying things from the drive to every available GB I have left on my other drives. I'll then pull the drive out, format it, and pull all the files back.