Major features
Table A-1 lists side-by-side comparisons of major features of AIX and Linux.
| Feature | AIX | Linux |
|---|---|---|
| Logical Volume Manager | LVM (can only increase file system size on the fly) | LVM (can increase and also decrease file systems on the fly) |
| JFS | JFS, JFS2 | JFS, ext2 and ext3 (Red Hat), Reiserfs (SuSE) |
| Admin interface | Smit, Smitty, WebSM | Webmin (Openware) redhat-config (Red Hat) YasT2 (SuSE) |
| Boot options | SMS menus (Press 1 or F1), Service Processor menus (Press 1 @beep) | SMS menus (Press 1 or F1), Open Firmware menus (Press 8 or F8) |
| Hardware monitoring | Inventory Scout, diagnostics, error logger | /var/adm/messages, Custom scripts |
| Clustering | HACMP | Cluster Suite (Red Hat) Heartbeat (SuSE) |
| Recovering root access | boot from CD/network to maintenance ... |
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