Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (464 mails)

[Gerald Pfeifer <gp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Per Jessen wrote:
> How about being really blunt and telling us what that reason is?  

And then I thought I was pretty blunt. ;-)

 - It's interesting to see that a few here favor JFS, but in terms of 
   customer requests I do not recall a single one for JFS nor a single 
   complaint when we deprecated JFS with SLES 10.

 - JFS doesn't really meet any needs that cannot be handled by other
   file systems in the distro (and the future belongs to clustered
   file systems anyway so that's where we are actually focusing).

 - Our QA is not testing JFS nor do any of our partners as far as I
   can tell, unlike the other file systems which regularily undergo 
   massive testing.

 - If you run into a problem with ext3/ReiserFS/XFS these should be
   easily and quickly addressed by the openSUSE kernel maintainers;
   for JFS I wouldn't know that.

To me as a user the first might not be that strong of an argument, though 
when it comes to data being mainstream is usually a good idea. The last
two I find pretty convincing. :-)

Gerald
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