[ale] JFS. Was: Linux at Weather.com

[KeithH]

A Journaling File System is already available.  It is called reiserfs. 
If it is not part of your distribution already, check it out on 
http://www.namesys.com/.  I've been using it for over a year without any 
failures.

Lost in Tokyo,
   Keith


C I wrote:

> This setup is in a radio commercial for IBM.  In the
> spot the CIO for weather.com is talking about how IBM
> helped them upgrade and how they brought in Linux
> servers.  
> 
> Also didn't I read somewhere that journaling was going
> to added when we get the ext3 file system.  Or was
> that just wishful thinking on my part.
> 
> CI 
> 
> 
> --- Jim Philips <jim.philips at s1.com> wrote:
> 
>> I wish I had a link for this, but it came to me in
>> an html e-mail and
>> sending it to the list would be messy. Anyway, 
>> techtarget.com sent an
>> article about weather.com's conversion to a totally
>> Linux server setup.
>>  
>> High points: 
>>  
>> The Linux setup there now handles between 10 and 15
>> million hits a day!
>> Open Source has proven to offer better security than
>> closed source.
>>  
>> Low points:
>>  
>> Linux still has a long way to go when it comes to
>> handling symmetric
>> multi-processing beyond two processors.
>> They still need a journaling file system.
>>  
>> But overall, Linux has been a huge success for
>> weather.com. So, the next
>> time an IT manager casts doubts on Linux' ability to
>> perform in a true
>> large-scale server operation, point them to
>> weather.com.
>>  
>> Hats off to our boys up in Marietta!
>> 
>> Jim Philips
>> 
>> Worldwide Customer Support
>> S1 Corporation
>> 3390 Peachtree Rd., Suite 1700, Atlanta, GA 30326
>> Email: jim.philips at s1.com Phone: 678-421-4611
>> www.s1.com
>> 
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>> 
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>> 
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