On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Per Jessen wrote:
Ken Schneider wrote:
I guess I'm just at a loss when I try to imagine what sort of technical problems they could possibly have had?? What has changed so dramatically in 9.3 that a file-system that was supported in 9.2 couldn't be supported in 9.3? JFS certainly hasn't changed much - the most recent 2 releases were mostly bug-fixes.
With JFS being contributed by IBM and the pending lawsuit from you know who against IBM perhaps SuSE is taking a more conservative approach.
I would have no problem accepting that. Political and licensing problems tend to be a lot harder than simple technical problems. But according to SuSE it's a _technical_ problem.
Also, they claim to have left the support in the kernel (mostly correct, the module is there), and only removed the partitioning support - which isn't quite true, as a vanilla SuSE 9.3 will _install_ on JFS, but it will not _boot_ from a JFS root partition.
Aha! That explains why I didn't have trouble - for whatever reason, I
always make /boot ext2 (not even ext3!).
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