Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (464 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Gerald, none of those are reasons for deprecating JFS IMHO.  You
> said "there is a reason why JFS is deprecated with current versions of
> SLES" - now instead of one strong argument, you list four very weak
> arguments: 
>
> 1) Customer requests - I find it difficult to believe that every
> openSUSE decision to include/exclude <something> depends on customer
> requests. 

Gerald made the argument for SLES.  The only requests for JFS I have
seen are from openSUSE users - and that's why we have added it back for
openSUSE as an "unsupported" filesystem.

> 2) Exactly the same goes for ext3, reiserfs and xfs. 
>
> 3) Surely this is only because you've chosen not to support JFS. 

Speaking of partners: They could have spoken up and ask for JFS - and
then we would have asked them for testing.

> 4) That applies to many kinds of software that is included by openSUSE. 

5) User base: I think you're the only one really using it;-) - or at
   least the most vocal one.

> Anyway, JFS has been back in openSUSE since 10.1 (I think it was) - you
> get an annoying pop-up window when you choose it, but I can live with
> that. 

Andreas
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