Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 186194
JFS root partition install
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:27 EST
Description of problem: Unable to install to JFS formatted partitions. Installation is allowed to proceed after partitioning, but actual installation of files never happens, and ananconda dies with an exception (uncopied, sorry) within a few seconds of starting to install files. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install from DVD to a non RAID harddrive. 2. Create /boot and / as JFS partitions. 3. Begin install process. Actual results: Failure to install any files, and an exception at the end of the unfinished install process. I tried this 4 times. Sorry, unable to collect exception dump data. Expected results: Install should work to completion. Grub supports JFS (and XFS I think) in this release and as such, it should be possible to create and install to a JFS formatted partition using anaconda. Additional info: Not a terribly important issue, but one I've been waiting to see for some time. Being able to use other filesystems than ext3 at some point would be very nice. I was able to install and complete the process using ext3 for /boot and /.
JFS isn't supported which is why you have to pass a command line option to even have it be available. We're willing to take patches, but aren't actively doing work to support JFS