Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (464 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andreas Jaeger wrote:

> 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.

OK, true - I guess I tend to think mostly in terms of openSUSE. 

> > 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.

Is that a hint at me/us?  We'd be very happy to help with JFS testing,
(which in fact we do anyway, though not in a really organized fashion). 

> > 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.

I can easily admit to the latter - I'm running a business and we're
using almost exclusively JFS.  A change away from JFS would require a
lot of changes for us, which is why I keep hassling everyone about JFS. 

But when it comes to usage of filesystems - if we only look at openSUSE
users, I suspect everyone is using either ext3 (current default) or
reiserfs (previous default).  Or do we have a lot of closet users of
XFS?


/Per Jessen, Zürich

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