Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (464 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Lukas Ocilka wrote:
>
> > I hoped that the FAQ could have helped:
> [faq cut]
> > That's also why JFS is not our default file system.
>
> I have absolutely no issue with that - I'm not really too interested in
> what openSUSE has as the _default_ filesystem - that is a question for
> openSUSE product management.  My primary concern is for openSUSE to
> maintain (semi-)support of JFS.
>
> The key issue in this thread is what Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>
> "there is a reason why JFS is deprecated with current versions of SLES."
>
> I would like Gerald to elaborate on that, especially since current
> versions of openSUSE have JFS support. 

Having some support and deprecated is both correct - and the current
state.  JFS is AFAIK not maintained actively anymore and we do not
include it in any openSUSE internal tests or will consider any bug in
JFS support critical.  There are better filesystems out there (ok, each
is better then others in one benchmark ;)

Andreas
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