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Date:	Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:53:52 -0700
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: eCS Software Subscription Services

In <20080324221619-51755-8@scoug.com>, on 03/24/08
at 10:16 PM, "Robert Blair" said:

Hi,

>I don't think JFS is a requirement. From what I have heard it is an
>option to install on JFS instead of HPFS.

This is true.

>What is your problem with JFS?

At this time, I would say that JFS is just as robust as HPFS. It pretty
much takes a hardware failure to make a volume unusable.

>For my other partition it is JFS and if there is a crash it takes a long
>time to chkdsk the system partition but almost 0 time to check the JFS
>partition.

JFS is also significantly faster in normal operations because it supports
larger cache sizes.

Steven

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