Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (475 mails)

[Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 07:41:00PM +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
> I don't want to flog a dead horse, and I'm also perfectly happy with the
> compromise we found, but the deprecation of JFS and now more recently
> LILO were clearly Novell decisions, not community decisions. 
>
> I think perhaps the case of JFS was a good start - it's still part of
> YaST, yet clearly marked as unsupported.

JFS is unsupported upstream, that is what drove that decision.  IBM is
no longer doing any new development of it and only very little bug work
for it, if any.

So that is why it is marked unsupported in our distro, we are just
mirroring the upstream community involvement there.

thanks,

greg k-h
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