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Re: jfs, jfsutils?
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Tobias Geerinckx-Rice |
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Re: jfs, jfsutils? |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Dec 2019 00:57:54 +0100 |
Michael,
Michael Zucchi 写道:
I just built a new computer and thought i'd give guix a go
That's great to hear! Welcome.
but after
finally getting everything working to the install stage ... I
hit a
personal showstopper - no jfs support whatsoever. It's mostly
an
afterthought on every other distribution but this was a
surprise.
Any reason for this or is it just that nobody thought of it?
s/thought/uses/
Nobody's going to add support for a file system they don't use,
and nobody boots Guix from JFS.
…yet. :-)
Anyway, I just ended up installing slackware-current and have
then
installed guix atop that, to grab a few packages and to get more
familiar with it. I would probably have had to do that anyway
as it
was probably too much to learn at once but I currently have a
lot of
spare time to fill, so tried guix first.
Spare time sucks, consider contributing JFS support to Guix
instead.
Assuming it's a pretty conventional Linux file system:
- Guix's Linux-Libre kernel already builds the module
(CONFIG_JFS_FS=m)
- it just needs to be added to the initramfs when booting from JFS
- jfsutils needs to be packaged for Guix and a static fsck added
to the initramfs
- some code must be added to (gnu build file-systems) to read JFS
labels & UUIDs: Guix does not use C tools to do this like other
distributions.
If you're completely new to Guix that might sound daunting, but
it's honestly not that hard and you should get plenty of help on
the mailing list and/or on IRC.
Kind regards,
T G-R
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- Re: jfs, jfsutils?, Josh, 2019/12/11
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- Re: jfs, jfsutils?, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice, 2019/12/11
- Re: jfs, jfsutils?, Michael Zucchi, 2019/12/11
- Re: jfs, jfsutils?, Joshua Branson, 2019/12/13
- Re: jfs, jfsutils?, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice, 2019/12/13
- Re: jfs, jfsutils?, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice, 2019/12/13
- Re: jfs, jfsutils?, Michael Zucchi, 2019/12/13
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